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RE: still confused about completion and matching

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: still confused about completion and matching
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:28:31 +0400
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>
> insert-unambiguous
>      This is used by the _match and _approximate completer functions,
>      where the possible completions may not have a common prefix so
>      that menu completion is often the most useful may of choosing
>      completions.  If the style is set to `true', the completer will
>      start menu completion only if no unambiguous string could be
>      generated that is at least as long as the original string typed by

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>      the user.
        ^^^^^^^^^^

That is the problem. It means, that if you have long pattern that results in
short match, menu completion is started.

I was never happy about it as well. But I switched to menu selection some time
ago :-)

-andrej

References:
- Re: still confused about completion and matching
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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