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Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: all-completions DTWT for "" and non-nil HIDE-SPACES |
Date: |
Sat, 13 May 2006 08:35:12 +0200 |
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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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