Re: fix for bug 10994 breaks ido customizations in major way

[Óscar Fuentes]

Vitalie Spinu <address@hidden> writes:

>  >> Currently
>  >> 
>  >> (let ((t1 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 12))
>  >> (t2 (propertize "aaa" 'aaa 11)))
>  >> (ido-completing-read "?: " (list t1 t2 "sfd")))
>  >> 
>  >> works as expected. And the above patch breaks that.
>
>  > That would be a horrible UI.  Luckily AFAICT, it hasn't happened.
>
> Not the best UI, but definitely not horrible, users can distinguish 2-3
> strings on very rare occasions.

2-3 identical strings? really? how?

> It makes implementation much faster and
> solves a lot of hustle for lazy programmers:)

Speaking as an user, I'll say that ido is protecting users from sloppy
programmers.