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Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES |
Date: |
Sat, 13 May 2006 11:27:13 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:27:29 -0700
>
> To me, the following behavior, with non-nil HIDE-SPACES argument, is a bug:
>
> (all-completions "" '((" a")("b")("c)) nil t) returns
> ("b" "c), not (" a" "b" "c")
>
> This behavior is very old (at least back to Emacs 20), but I doubt that any
> existing code depends on it (I have no proof).
Actually, I have a proof to the contrary: this feature is used by
buffer-name completions: buffers whose names begin with a space aren't
shown (a.k.a. hidden from the naive users).