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bug#45474: Icomplete exhibiting in recursive minibuffer when it shouldn’


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#45474: Icomplete exhibiting in recursive minibuffer when it shouldn’t
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:24:30 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> I have the impression that I suffer from NIH syndrome with respect to your
>> patch, so I'll refrain from commenting on it by and large
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.

I mean that I dislike your proposal but can't quite say why, so
I suspect it's just a case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

> Hmmm...  That's not true, see the occurrences of
> minibuffer_completing_file_name.

Indeed, it's a hack trying to solve the exact same kind of problems
we're trying to solve.

>>>    run_hook (Qminibuffer_setup_hook);
>> As in my patch, you could use this hook to do the completion-specific part
>> of the setup.
> Indeed, but you said that 'minibuffer-with-setup-hook' is "fundamentally
> broken and messy"...

All schemes using dynamic scoping to pass the information are similarly
broken&messy, so yes, I don't like using it, but at least it's not
specific to completion.


        Stefan






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