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change to try-completion behavior
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Johan Bockgård |
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change to try-completion behavior |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:33:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
There was an old thread in gnu.emacs.help (see below) about the change
in behavior of try-completion in CVS.
This code
(let ((completion-ignore-case t))
(try-completion "w" '(("W") ("Write") ("w"))))
returns "W" in Emacs 22. In Emacs 21 is used to return "w", that is
the best match _including_ case.
I should have said in that discussion that I think that this is a
bug/regression. Ftry_completion contains this comment:
/* If there is more than one exact match ignoring case, and one of
them is exact including case, prefer that one. */
The new short-circuiting behavior means that this note is not true in
general.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/32010
From: Johan Bockgård <bojohan+news <at> dd.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: change to try-completion behavior in 21.3?
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help
Date: 2005-12-17 06:49:54 GMT
Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Why should it ever return the capital letter W?
>
> Because in your completion table, you have "W".
"w" was also in the table.
This change
revision 1.237
date: 2002-04-09 19:28:42 +0000; author: monnier; state: Exp; lines: +89
-47 [...]
(Ftry_completion): Allow lambda forms and lists of strings for
`alist'.
Short-circuit the search as soon as it "failed". [...]
added this piece of code (approximately)
if (matchsize <= SCHARS (string)
&& matchcount > 1)
/* No need to look any further. */
break;
When completion-ignore-case is t this doesn't necessarily find the
best match _including case_ (AFAICS).
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Johan Bockgård
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