Re: Bug + patch: _expand() fails to insert unambiguous prefix

[Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to CC this to the mailing list. I shouldn’t use email on my phone, apparently.

>>> On 20. Mar 2021, at 22.54, Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your well-thought-out response. I think you have good 
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> Whoops! Replying on my phone, I accidentally touched the send button. :/
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> Anyway, what I meant to say was, I took your points to heart and spent some time trying to come up with a better solution, only to realize that I cannot find a way to make it work in a good way that takes your points into account _and_ I’m not really that invested in this feature in the first. It just seemed like a nice idea at the time that wouldn’t be too hard to implement. Turns out it has more consequences than I thought about and I don’t really need the feature myself.
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> So, long story short: I decided to abandon this patch and go work on something else. If anyone else wants to continue where I left off, feel free to do so.
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> Having said that, this exercise have shown me some other areas where _expand could be improved. I’ll submit a new patch for _expand soon (just not for this particular feature).