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Re: Two problems of completion
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Two problems of completion |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2008 11:20:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> 1. Special case: the string before completion is the empty string "".
> In this case, completion--try-word-completion will see a completion
> available, i.e. ("" . 0), and then try firstly completing with " " (""
> + " ") and then "-" ("" + "-"). Partial completion often (e.g. in a
> command execution context, i.e. typing M-x then typing SPC) returns a
> result of ("-" . 0), make a completion available.
> I think when the user press SPC directly in such a case, it means that
> the user wants to see a list of available completions, instead of
> wanting a partially completed word. So this case might need special
> handling.
I've installed a workaround for this situation: if the minibuffer is
empty, and SPC tries to add a " " or a "-", it turns off
partial-completion while doing it.
Stefan
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