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


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 08:35:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"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.
>
> What does it start with?

What are the elements of the empty set?

Andreas.

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