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[PATCH] Insert * on TAB with completion-pcm-leading-wildcard=t

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>, 79219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#79219: [PATCH] Insert * on TAB with completion-pcm-leading-wildcard=t
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:34:25 +0300

Spencer, hi,

On 11/08/2025 19:44, Spencer Baugh wrote:
> Improve completion-pcm-leading-wildcard by actually inserting
> a * when try-completion runs.  completion-pcm--merge-try will
> automatically remove the wildcard anywhere that it has no
> matches, so the * is inserted only where it actually had an
> effect.

Would it be difficult to add a test for this?

I can see that you authored some of most recent ones in 
minibuffer-tests.el, but completion-pcm-leading-wildcard does not seem 
to be exercised in our suite yet.

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