Re: address@hidden: Partial completion]

[Nick Roberts]

 > Please try the attached patch instead.  It's simpler and should take
 > care of the remaining problems.
 > *** complete.el      Tue Jan 23 07:40:00 2007
 > --- complete.el      Sat Feb 24 20:46:14 2007
 > ***************
 > *** 383,388 ****
 > --- 383,393 ----
 >       (let ((completion-ignore-case nil))
 >         (test-completion str table pred))))
 > 
 > + (defun try-completion-old (string alist &optional predicate)
 > +   "Like `try-completion' but return empty string instead of t."
 > +   (let ((result (try-completion string alist predicate)))
 > +     (if (eq result t) "" result)))
 >...

I don't use partial completion (complete.el) so the OP will have to test it.
However the above function is not equivalent to the old try-completion e.g

old (try-completion "" '((""))) returns t

(try-completion-old "" '((""))) returns ""

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