Re: Partial completion and completions-first-difference.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This is a bug that could take a while to fix ;-)
>> When in partial-completion-mode, if I try, say M-x
>> describe-function RET -function TAB the *Completion* buffer is
>> shown, but the letter in bold are not those which make a difference
>> for the completion.

>> As this is an old bug, it could have been already discussed, if so,
>> sorry for the noise.

> There was a small fix to completion-setup-function to work with
> partial-completion-mode except for in the situation that you
> describe.  There remains a comment in the source:

>     ;; If partial-completion-mode is on, point might not be after the
>     ;; last character in the minibuffer.
>     ;; FIXME: This still doesn't work if the text to be completed
>     ;; starts with a `-'.

An easy fix is to turn off the boldening if partial-completion-mode is ON
and the string starts with a - (or maybe even turn it OFF altogether
whenever partial-completion-mode is ON).


        Stefan