GNU bug report logs - #9591
Buffer substring completion matches hidden buffers.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, 9591 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9591: 24.0.50; buffer name completion
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:05:02 -0400

    I guess we could provide an ad-hoc completion style for buffers, but
    that's kind of ugly: completion styles are supposed to be agnostic to the
    underlying completion table and vice-versa.

For common UI features in Emacs, convenience is more important than
uniformity.  This is one of them.  Space at the start of a buffer
name has always had special treatment in several ways; turning off
the special treatment for completion is simply a bug.

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