Re: Bug in completion

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> This fails in a recent version; would someone please fix it?

I have installed a fix.


>
> If the symbols as alist keys are replaced with strings, it does
> not fail.  However, both cases are supposed to work.
> So this is a bug.
>
>
> From: John J Foerch <address@hidden>
> Subject: completing-read
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:53:42 -0500
>
> Hello,
>
> The following code exhibits a behavior of completing-read that I would call a
> bug.  Or am I missing something?
>
> (let ((table '((foo . "you selected foo")
>                (foobar . "you selected foobar"))))
>   (completing-read "Symbol: " table nil 'require-match))
>
> The unexpected behavior is that it is impossible to select `foo'.
>
> Thanks,
> John Foerch
>
>
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