Re: address@hidden: Partial completion]

[martin rudalics]

Please try the attached patch instead.  It's simpler and should take
care of the remaining problems.

*** complete.el Tue Jan 23 07:40:00 2007
--- complete.el Sat Feb 24 20:46:14 2007
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*** 383,388 ****
--- 383,393 ----
      (let ((completion-ignore-case nil))
        (test-completion str table pred))))

+ (defun try-completion-old (string alist &optional predicate)
+   "Like `try-completion' but return empty string instead of t."
+   (let ((result (try-completion string alist predicate)))
+     (if (eq result t) "" result)))
+ 
  (defun PC-do-completion (&optional mode beg end)
    (or beg (setq beg (minibuffer-prompt-end)))
    (or end (setq end (point-max)))
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*** 390,396 ****
         (pred minibuffer-completion-predicate)
         (filename (funcall PC-completion-as-file-name-predicate))
         (dirname nil)          ; non-nil only if a filename is being completed
!        (dirlength 0)
         (str (buffer-substring beg end))
         (incname (and filename (string-match "<\\([^\"<>]*\\)>?$" str)))
         (ambig nil)
--- 395,401 ----
         (pred minibuffer-completion-predicate)
         (filename (funcall PC-completion-as-file-name-predicate))
         (dirname nil)          ; non-nil only if a filename is being completed
!        dirlength
         (str (buffer-substring beg end))
         (incname (and filename (string-match "<\\([^\"<>]*\\)>?$" str)))
         (ambig nil)
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*** 623,630 ****

            ;; Check if next few letters are the same in all cases
            (if (and (not (eq mode 'help))
!                    (setq prefix (try-completion (PC-chunk-after basestr skip)
!                                                   poss)))
                (let ((first t) i)
                  ;; Retain capitalization of user input even if
                  ;; completion-ignore-case is set.
--- 628,635 ----

            ;; Check if next few letters are the same in all cases
            (if (and (not (eq mode 'help))
!                    (setq prefix (try-completion-old
!                                  (PC-chunk-after basestr skip) poss)))
                (let ((first t) i)
                  ;; Retain capitalization of user input even if
                  ;; completion-ignore-case is set.
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*** 662,668 ****
                              (setq skip (concat skip
                                                 (regexp-quote prefix)
                                                 PC-ndelims-regex)
!                                   prefix (try-completion
                                            (PC-chunk-after
                                             ;; not basestr, because that does
                                             ;; not reflect insertions
--- 667,673 ----
                              (setq skip (concat skip
                                                 (regexp-quote prefix)
                                                 PC-ndelims-regex)
!                                   prefix (try-completion-old
                                            (PC-chunk-after
                                             ;; not basestr, because that does
                                             ;; not reflect insertions
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*** 996,1002 ****
                (cond
                 ((not completion-table) nil)
                 ((eq action 'lambda) (test-completion str2 completion-table 
nil))
!                ((eq action nil) (try-completion str2 completion-table nil))
                 ((eq action t) (all-completions str2 completion-table nil)))))
      ad-do-it))
  
--- 1001,1007 ----
                (cond
                 ((not completion-table) nil)
                 ((eq action 'lambda) (test-completion str2 completion-table 
nil))
!                ((eq action nil) (try-completion-old str2 completion-table 
nil))
                 ((eq action t) (all-completions str2 completion-table nil)))))
      ad-do-it))