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Re: completion features

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: completion features
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:06:01 -0800 (PST)
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Reply-to: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Peter Stephenson writes:
 > Something like ++^D when you have correction set to 2 will allow anything
 > at all to be completed, assuming there was no exact match.  Sven mentioned
 > something about this, but it looks particularly funny here.  What are we
 > going to do? 
 >   - max no. of corrections is one *less* than length of prefix+suffix?

I like this.

 >   - assume users, unlike me, are smart enough to cope?

I don't think we should assume that any users unlike you are able to cope,
_especially_ if you aren't able to.

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  - From: Peter Stephenson

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