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bug#48356: 28.0.50; choose-completion discards the suffix after the comp
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#48356: 28.0.50; choose-completion discards the suffix after the completion boundary |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:34:28 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>>> IMHO, the root of the problem is in completion-all-completions
>>>> that returns in the last `cdr' only the start of completions,
>>>> but not the end of completions.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>
>> If I recall correctly, someone wrote a patch which fixed the root cause.
>
> The only patch that removes these comments
>
> ;; FIXME: We need to additionally return the info needed for the
> ;; second part of completion-base-position.
>
> ;; FIXME: We should pay attention to completion
> ;; boundaries here, but currently
> ;; completion-all-completions does not give us the
> ;; necessary information.
>
> is https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-08/msg00412.html
> in bug#47711 and bug#48841.
I wonder what is the fate of this patch? There was a long discussion
without a clear outcome. Maybe it's possible to split the patch
to smaller parts where a separate patch would add the feature needed here
to return the end position of the completion boundaries?