Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES

[Andreas Schwab]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> The doc string for all-completions says that if the first arg doesn't start
> with a space then a non-nil 4th arg means ignore candidates that start with
> a space. "Start with a space" means that the first character is a space.
> This is undefined (ambiguous) if the string has no first character (doesn't
> start at all; is empty).

I don't follow.  An empty string clearly does not start with a space.

> I think the functionality should be changed

I don't agree.  That would change the behaviour of buffer completions: If
you type TAB in the empty minibuffer when being prompted for a buffer you
don't want buffers starting with a space in the list of completions.

Andreas.

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