Re: master 87e422f: Beef up the Emacs string utility set a bit

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:

>> s-shared-start is already covered by try-completion, right?  Which has
>> various uses, e.g. in project--read-file-cpd-relative.
>
> It's also covered by compare-strings, but both need a bit of setup to
> do the same as s-shared-start, so a wrapper can be useful (for
> example, it's easy to forget to reset
> completion-regexp-list). Additionally, discovering the right function
> to call can be hard (I hadn't realized that try-completion could be
> used for this, and neither had the authors or s.el).

Perhaps adding something like shared-start would be a good addition for
seq?  The s.el semantics seem a bit unclear -- do "Foobar" and "foozot"
share a prefix?  Adding to seq (with a predicate to compare characters)
would be nice...

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