GNU bug report logs - #11308
24.1.50; More completion confusion

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Package: emacs; Severity: minor; Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@HIDDEN>; Keywords: confirmed; dated Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:59:01 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.
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Subject: Re: bug#11308: 24.1.50; More completion confusion
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@HIDDEN> writes:

> M-x find-library RET isearch.e
>
> Put point at bol (i.e. on/just before the `i') and hit TAB.  You get
> (only) the completion isearch.elc.  And point is not moved to eol: it
> stays where it was.
>
> Or put point on `.' - same thing.  But quicker - when point is on the
> `i' it takes a while.
>
> But putting point on or after the second `e' gives isearch.el as the
> only completion.  Likewise, point on the `h', the `c', the `r', the `a',
> and the `s'.
>
> But first complete with point at bol (on `i'), then remove the final
> `lc' and move point to the `s'.  TAB then completes to isearch.el, as
> before, but this time with the message [Complete but not unique], which
> was not shown before with point at the same place (on `s').

Yes, that's pretty confusing...  I get pretty much the same as you do,
but not quite.  

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Subject: 24.1.50; More completion confusion
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Nothing new.  Just another example of how completion with multiple
styles chained together can be confusing.  At least that's what I
suppose the culprit is (without looking).
 
emacs -Q
 
M-x find-library RET isearch.e
 
Put point at bol (i.e. on/just before the `i') and hit TAB.  You get
(only) the completion isearch.elc.  And point is not moved to eol: it
stays where it was.
 
Or put point on `.' - same thing.  But quicker - when point is on the
`i' it takes a while.
 
But putting point on or after the second `e' gives isearch.el as the
only completion.  Likewise, point on the `h', the `c', the `r', the `a',
and the `s'.
 
But first complete with point at bol (on `i'), then remove the final
`lc' and move point to the `s'.  TAB then completes to isearch.el, as
before, but this time with the message [Complete but not unique], which
was not shown before with point at the same place (on `s').
 
Well not quite.  _Sometimes_ you will see [Complete but not unique] when
you follow that recipe.  Sometimes you will not.  Depends on the tide
perhaps.
 
Hardly what I would call "least surprise".  YMMV.
 

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 of 2012-04-19 on MARVIN
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