[slime-devel] Re: RFC for completion behaviour

[Madhu]

* Edi Weitz <u7isr0yk9.fsf at agharta.de> :

| On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:37:22 +0200, "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
|
|>   b) Slime's standard completion function `SLIME-COMPLETE-SYMBOL*'
|>   (i.e. the one that is used at the REPL, for instance) completes
|>   "asdf:*Com" to "asdf:*COMPILE-FILE--BEHAVIOUR*", where point is at
|>   the end of the completion.
|>
|>   (As opposed to `SLIME-SIMPLE-COMPLETE-SYMBOL', which would
|>   complete it to "asdf:*COMPILE-FILE-".)
|>
|>   Traditionally, the point has been set to the place between the two
|>   dashes ("asdf:*COMPILE-FILE-|-BEHAVIOUR*", where "|" is supposed
|>   to mean the cursor.) It doesn't anymore, rendering that kind of
|>   completion pretty much b0rked.
|>
|>   I'd like to restore the traditional behaviour. Comments?
|
| You have my vote.

Except this would completely bork choosing a completion interactively
from the "*Completions*" buffer, which is pretty fundamental to any
completion interface.

This was debated to death and I provided a patch to support both
behaviours. I'd rather you commmit a version of that

The patch was sent in the message with the following headers:

 Message-ID: <m3d54ynkid.fsf at robolove.meer.net>
 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:54:26 +0530
 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/5921>

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Best Regards
Madhu