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bug#74772: [PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for completion-pcm-leading
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#74772: [PATCH] Consistently add wildcards for completion-pcm-leading-wildcard |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:40:06 +0200 |
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Cc: 74772@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:14:15 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> >> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:48:23 -0500
> >> From: Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> (defcustom completion-pcm-leading-wildcard nil
> >> - "If non-nil, partial-completion completes as if there's a leading
> >> wildcard.
> >> + "If non-nil, partial-completion adds a leading wildcard for each word.
> >
> > The modified wording is misleading, because it says something that
> > doesn't really happen (as the rest of the doc string reveals).
>
> Okay, how about:
>
> If non-nil, PCM completes as if there's a wildcard before each word.
Much better, thanks. You could even say
If non-nil, partial-completion behaves as if each word is preceded by
wildcard.