Re: UI inconveniences with M-.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/29/2015 06:13 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Sounds fine to me.  Tho "symbol" might be a tad too generic.

...identifier? Better name welcome.

> Not sure what you're saying here.  Indeed, for buffers,
> completion-category-defaults says to first try prefix matching and
> fallback on substring only if that fails.  This was done mostly to
> reduce friction when the change was introduced.

I was saying that about the current identifier completion in `C-u M-.'. 
And was mistaken: it's close, but uses partial-completion (according to 
`completion-styles'). Which is close, but a bit less user-friendly.