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Re: PATCH: (perhaps) for use of _oldlist

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: (perhaps) for use of _oldlist
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:35:58 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> _main_completer squirrels away compstate[nmatches] regardless of
> _oldlist; the value is 0 after the first use of _oldlist because we
> didn't generate any matches this time.  (I say "appears" because
> although it certainly does do what I said it's possible there's
> something deeper going on.)

I was having a similar problem with _oldlist and a custom completion 
context, but I thought it was due to the WIDGETSTYLE business in _oldlist 
itself, that you already patched.  So I think you probably have the right 
idea with this patch, if the problem persists.

References:
- PATCH: (perhaps) for use of _oldlist
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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