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Re: completion-cycle-threshold and a suggestion


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: completion-cycle-threshold and a suggestion
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:57:00 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> The current completion cycle has this issue, for example, assume there
> are two possible completions 'feature' and 'feature-old', feature-old is
> seen first. This is counter-intuitive to the behaviour without
> completion cycle.

I don't understand.  AFAIK the completion-cycle code is careful to order
the options using a heuristic based on the length of the completions
(choosing shorter ones first).

So are you saying that in your experience, the heuristic gives bad
results, or that the heuristic somehow was not applied?


        Stefan



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