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24.0.50; pcomplete regression

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8926: 24.0.50; pcomplete regression
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:21:29 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Yup.  Because among the various completion cases, the case for "files"
> used to return a list and now returns a function.  Both are valid
> completion tables.  Any caller of pcomplete-completions should expect to
> receive a completion table and not just a list of strings.  It may very
> well receive a list of strings (which is one kind of completion table),
> but it may just as well receive something else.
Yes i saw that, and it's what i didn't understand.
Would be cool to have the docstring or comment somewhere explaining
that.
Thanks.

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