GNU bug report logs - #8197
24.0.50; completion-substring-try-completion bug ?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Politz <politza <at> fh-trier.de>

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 8197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Politz <politza <at> fh-trier.de>
Cc: 8197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8197: 24.0.50; completion-substring-try-completion bug ?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:09:05 -0400

Andreas Politz wrote:

> (completion-substring-try-completion
>         "foo" '("bar-foo" "baz-foo") nil 2)
> => ("ba-foo" . 6)
>
> I would expect this to return ("ba-foo" . 2) .

Now it returns ("-foo" . 4).
Is this progress?
I don't know, because the function is undocumented
(I guess I have to look it up in completion-styles-alist?).
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