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bug#70968: 29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion del
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#70968: 29.2.50; choose-completion on an emacs22-style completion deletes text after point |
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Thu, 16 May 2024 21:28:45 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, dmitry@gutov.dev,
> 70968@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 13:40:35 -0400
>
> > If making these two ways consistent means we need to change the
> > behavior of emacs22 style of completion, then I'm sorry, but we cannot
> > do that. This style is a legacy style, and is there to provide the
> > legacy behavior for those who need it.
>
> I'm not sure it's terribly important to preserve this detail of the
> behavior of `Emacs-22`. The `emacs22` style does not aim to provide the
> illusion you're running an old Emacs. I named it that way because
> I couldn't come up with a good descriptive name for it. If it
> misbehaves, I don't see a need to be bug-compatible, especially since
> this doesn't affect ELisp code but users.
I think it does, sorry. Suchj old behavior is a de-facto standard.
If we change that, we should at least have a knob to get back the old
behavior.