GNU bug report logs - #78944
31.0.50; Minibuffer completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 17:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

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Message #53 received at 78944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 78944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#78944: 31.0.50; Minibuffer completion
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:47:05 -0400
>>> In case the message is really needed at least guard it behind
>>> an option?
>> Do you have some concrete case where it gets in the way?
> I think about places like auto completion where the APIs are called by a
> timer or somehow in the back, decoupled from direct user actions.  There
> are many such uses where purity is assumed and where such a message
> rather hurts than helps.

Duh, indeed.


        Stefan





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