Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
expression `^a.*-b.*-c.*' (where "dot" matches anything but a hyphen). Examples give a more intuitive feeling:Currently 'mu' expands to 'mu-', with possible completions among others muffle-warning and multiple-value-bind. Is that a bug?
The code does this because every possible completion has a hyphen. If muffle-warning was called muffle-the-warning all of them would have two hyphens, and the completion would be 'mu--' (with the point placed after 'u').
The documentation is obscure but correct I think. I had meant to cover this case by putting the '^' in the regexp and not having a '$' at the end, i.e. the regexp doesn't have to match to the end of the string. The partial completion is then computed from the commonality of the available completions, without reference to the input string.
That make sense?
(This is a pretty hard feature to document clearly. I'll see if there is a good description to swipe from completer.el.)
-Luke