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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs


From: João Távora
Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 18:42:06 +0100

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:39 PM Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > >  > > So, if I would rename concat, it would be concat-to-string.
> > >
> > >   > But then people who need to concatenate strings will not find it,
> > >   > because they will type string- TAB.
> > >
> > > My solution, extending apropos and its variants so it "finds"
> > > 'string-' in the name 'concat', would deal with that.
> >
> > The main motivation for "renaming" was to have completion find those
> > names.  People who advance that proposal don't want to use apropos
> > instead of completion.  So we will need to extend the completion to do
> > the same trick you had in mind for apropos.

> The question, for any given _use_ of completion,
> is what kind of completion someone wants.  For
> code-completion maybe prefix completion is great.
> For `C-h f' maybe substring completion is better.

+1.  Or maybe 'substring' completion with that
"also mentioned in the manual" scoring boost
(could be another completion style).

João Távora



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