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Re: handling of completion table duplicates
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: handling of completion table duplicates |
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Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:34:41 +0200 |
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Ingo Lohmar <address@hidden> writes:
> I recently noticed that ivy-mode (at its very core a completing-read
> alternative, just like ido-completing-read is another one) does *not*
> eliminate duplicates from the collection it is passed, eg, in form of a
> plain list.
>
> (completing-read "Prompt: " '("a" "b" "c" "a" "d"))
>
> Both completing-read as well as ido-completing-read remove such
> duplicates,
all-completions doesn't. The removal is probably just a side effect of
the implementation.
> Is removing duplicates from the collection *expected* from completion
> functions, or is the caller of the function responsible for providing a
> collection without duplicates?
IMHO it's the resposibility of the caller to make sure the completion
table is useful.
Andreas.
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