GNU bug report logs - #79219
[PATCH] Insert * on TAB with completion-pcm-leading-wildcard=t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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Message #8 received at 79219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: 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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