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bug#4176: Acknowledgement (23.1; partial completions)
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#4176: Acknowledgement (23.1; partial completions) |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:57:21 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> After a quick look, I tried to redefine `minibuffer-complete' and just
> comment out the second (goto-char (field-end)). This seems to work
> wrt wrongly moving the cursor to the end which seems to resolve both
[...]
> 1. Since this code was put there explicitly, there must be some issue
> I don't see in removing it.
I don't have time to dig into this right now, but the cursor placement
is fairly tricky indeed, and there are often different valid choices
depending on your particular preferences.
The rule I tried to follow (in the partia-completion code) is that the
cursor should be placed to the rightmost position that still offers ways
to persue completion. In your `select-window' example, it seems that
the behavior doesn't follow this rule, so it might indeed be
a plain bug.
> 2. Even after the quick code browse I have no idea what wonderful
> features I'm losing by removing `basic' and `emacs22' from
> `completion-styles'. I would be happy if someone can enlighten me.
You lose the fact that the default Emacs-23 completion is a compromise
between the non-partial-completion and the partial-completion behavior.
If you used partial-completion and liked it, you probably want to do
(setq completion-styles '(partial-completion)) like you did.
But remember that enabling partial-completion by default in Emacs-23
didn't get accepted without a fight.
Stefan