Re: should locate-file-completion filter out "./" and "../"?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thankfully (!!!!), duplicates are *not* being removed from the result of
> `all-completions', because I rely upon that fact to give me an unordered set
> of completions, with duplicates if they are available. I have code that lets
> users take advantage of completion candidates that might be identical
> strings but have different meanings (e.g. occurrences of the same string in
> a buffer).

Could you expand on this?
I have a hard time imagining why it would be useful to have duplicates if
they are truly identical.  And if they're not really identical, how does the
user know the difference?


        Stefan