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Re: Partial completion and completions-first-difference.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Partial completion and completions-first-difference. |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:26:33 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> This is a bug that could take a while to fix ;-)
>> When in partial-completion-mode, if I try, say M-x
>> describe-function RET -function TAB the *Completion* buffer is
>> shown, but the letter in bold are not those which make a difference
>> for the completion.
>> As this is an old bug, it could have been already discussed, if so,
>> sorry for the noise.
> There was a small fix to completion-setup-function to work with
> partial-completion-mode except for in the situation that you
> describe. There remains a comment in the source:
> ;; If partial-completion-mode is on, point might not be after the
> ;; last character in the minibuffer.
> ;; FIXME: This still doesn't work if the text to be completed
> ;; starts with a `-'.
An easy fix is to turn off the boldening if partial-completion-mode is ON
and the string starts with a - (or maybe even turn it OFF altogether
whenever partial-completion-mode is ON).
Stefan
Re: Partial completion and completions-first-difference., Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/05