Re: simulation of dabbrev-expand

[Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sven Wischnowsky (wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> 
> > How can I ensure that there are no duplicate words in the list of
> > matches?  Even if this isn't the real problem I'm experiencing, it may
> > well help narrow it down. 
> 
> Bart Schaefer answered:
> 
> > The completion system *should* be handling this for you, but I'm going to
> > leave that bug to Sven, [ ... ] 
> 
> Hm, actually I don't think this is a bug -- at least it is intended
> behaviour. Although I admit that I partly did this for performance
> reasons. So, should duplicates always be removed or should this be an
> option (we're in trouble with `compctl', then -- no more option
> letters).

I'd vote for the option er, option ... sorry :-)  No idea what you
should do about the option letters, other than using 8-bit-high
options ;-)

> You've missed some mails in which I wrote something about this. See
> 6117 and 6119 (and somewhere before that, but I don't have this in my
> list any more, it seems).

Thanks; interesting reading.