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bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#1800: 23.0.60; Changed meaning of * in buffer name completion
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:07:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> So implementing a message "[No match, type TAB again for * as 
>> a wildcard]" will keep the traditional behavior just as you want.
>
> No, there are plenty of other annoyances/surprises for users in this new
> behavior, besides the `*' buffer one. I gave two good examples in the report 
> for
> bug #1512, neither involving wildcards or necessarily buffers.
>
> http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1512

Asking for another TAB before doing partial completion will solve
both your problems.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/






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