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Re: master@head: completing-read behavior change?
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T.V Raman |
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Re: master@head: completing-read behavior change? |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:01:47 -0800 |
Found it -- ido--overlay (apologies)
I was looking at the wrong branch earlier. Now have it working in both
emacs 27 and emacs 28
T.V Raman writes:
> Yes, you nailed the problem. I need to update how I handle ido-exhibit
> in my after advice. Thanks for the prompt help and pointer.
> Dmitry Gutov writes:
> > Hi T.V.,
> >
> > On 23.01.2020 0:42, T.V Raman wrote:
> > > Could anyone tell me what changed in the behavior of completing-read
> > > between
> > > * (HEAD detached at 561ba2633e)
> > > and HEAD on master branch?
> >
> > I can't find the revision 561ba2633e, but it could be commit
> > 3b0938c0420de2b845e7e8f8fbbb57ddc61718f2.
> >
> > > From what I observe, something low-level appears to have changed how
> > > completing-read produces its final minibuffer prompt when ido is active.
> >
> > The aforementioned commit changed the way Ido's suggestions are
> > displayed: instead of being plainly 'insert'-ed, they are now an
> > 'after-string' property on an overlay placed at the end of the prompt
> > and input.
> >
> > > From emacspeak, I used to be able to speak the ido choices
> > > intelligently, now I just get the number of available choices spoken
> > > -- and the code on the emacspeak end hasn't changed.
> >
> > Does emacspeak work okay with icomplete-mode? The above is how the
> > latter has been displaying its suggestions for some time.
> >
> > This change has been made for better compatibility with the new way
> > messages are displayed while minibuffer is active (they are displayed
> > using the same mechanism). So I think emacspeak should learn to
> > understand this kind of rendering either way.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience, though.
>
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Re: master@head: completing-read behavior change?, T.V Raman, 2020/01/22