bug#17239: 24.3.50; competion error (cl-assertion-failed (string-prefix-p uprefix ustring))

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I spotted these behaviours ("=>" means "hit C-b TAB and the minibuffer
>> becomes") :
>> ~/~/     => ~/~/ [Complete, but not unique]
>> ~/foo/~/ => ~/
>> /foo/~/  => /foo/~/ [Complete, but not unique]
>
> Indeed, I'm not sure why ~/foo/~/ behaves differently.  It's probably
> a side-effect of completion--sifn-requote.  You can take a look at that
> function's leading comment to get an idea for why it might not always
> behave perfectly ;-)

This is perhaps a bit inconsistent, but it's unclear what a consistent
behaviour here would be, anyway -- it's all a bit DWIM, and I think
that's OK.  So I'm closing this bug report.

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