Thanks Madhu for commenting on this! I've been told on IRC that there was some issues around this, and thus wanted asked here before doing work unnecessarily. I'm a bit disappointed that such things don't seem to get properly documented in the ChangeLog in the fist place. Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:
This was debated to death and I provided a patch to support both behaviours. I'd rather you commmit a version of that
Summary for those who are too lazy to look at the thread themselves: Completion alternatives are provided within the *Completions* buffer, clicking on such a completion choice (or switching to the buffer and pressing RET) invokes `CHOOSE-COMPLETION' that inserts the chosen completion _up to point_. If point is set to the place of first mismatch v asdf:*compile-file-|-behaviour* ^ clicking on such a choice will result in the wrong asdf:*compile-file-failure-behaviour*-behaviour* while typing `f TAB' (asdf:*compile-file-f[TAB]-behaviour*) would invoke the Slime specific completion function again which can handle this case gracefully and it would be correctly completed to asdf:*compile-file-failure-behaviour*
The patch was sent in the message with the following headers:
Introducing yet another global variable which basically does nothing else than determining between "Pissing-off Edi" or "Pissing-off Madhu" is not the way to go. :) Let's stop doing that; Slime's kludgy enough already. I can perceive two solutions: a) We can fix `CHOOSE-COMPLETION' to DTRT by defining an appropriate function and hooking up `CHOOSE-COMPLETION-STRING-FUNCTIONS'. b) Let's drop that kind of behaviour alltogether. I initially thought the behaviour of inserting a common suffix as well as a common prefix was kind of cool, but then, if you think about it, it doesn't provide any real ergonomic advantage: asdf:*com TAB will be expanded to asdf:*compile-file--behaviour* offering as possible completions asdf:*compile-file-failure-behaviour* asdf:*compile-file-warnings-behaviour* So you must press `f' or `w' to decide on it _anyway_; it doesn't matter if the initial completion simply expanded to asdf:*compile-file- since a common suffix means that it _will_ be automatically completed anyway! Comments? -T.