bug#26274: 26.0.50; completion regression

[Michal Nazarewicz]

On Thu, Mar 30 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  26274@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:00:27 +0200
>> 
>> > Starting from a fresh checkout like Eli suggested is the safest way,
>> > but I guess you should be able to get around this error by deleting
>> > 'Makefile', and regenerating it by running ./configure again.
>> 
>> Thanks, I went this route, and it worked (and still took almost an hour
>> to go through eight iterations).  Git bisect in fact pinpointed this
>> commit:
>> 
>> 5ec3a58462e99533ea5200de356302181d634d0b is the first bad commit
>> commit 5ec3a58462e99533ea5200de356302181d634d0b
>> Author: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>> Date:   Mon Sep 19 00:23:40 2016 +0200
>> 
>>     Generate upcase and downcase tables from Unicode data  (bug#24603)
>>     
>>     Use Unicode data to generate case tables instead of mostly repeating
>>     them in lisp code.  Do that in a way which maps ‘Dz’ (and similar)
>>     digraph to ‘dz’ when down- and ‘DZ’ when upcasing.
>>     
>>     https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=89;bug=24603 lists all
>>     changes to syntax table and case tables introduced by this commit.
>>     
>>     * lisp/international/characters.el: Remove case-pairs defined with
>>     explicit Lisp code and instead use Unicode character properties.
>>     
>>     * test/src/casefiddle-tests.el (casefiddle-tests--characters,
>>     casefiddle-tests-casing): Update test cases which are now working
>>     as they should.
>> 
>> (When Eli listed this as a candidate, I doubted it because of the date,
>> since my build from February 8 of this year does not have the problem.
>> I guess that date is not the commit date.  Confusing when looking at the
>> commit log.)

You can do ‘git show --format=fuller 5ec3a58462e99533ea520’ to see
commit date but even that can be rather misleading.

> The commit date is Feb 15.  This commit came from a feature branch, so
> the date you see in the log I show is the original commit date on that
> branch.
>
> Michal, could you please take a look at this?

Strangely I cannot reproduce it.  I’ve run ‘emacs -Q’, executed

    (custom-set-variables
     '(completion-category-overrides
       (quote ((buffer (styles substring))
               (file (styles substring)))))
     '(read-buffer-completion-ignore-case t)
     '(read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t))

and with atest, Atest, ätest, Ätest, testä and testÄ files in the
directory I get the following completions:

    | Typed | Completions                         |
    |-------+-------------------------------------|
    | test  | atest Atest ätest Ätest testä testÄ |
    |-------+-------------------------------------|
    | atest | atest Atest                         |
    | Atest | atest Atest                         |
    | ätest | ätest Ätest                         |
    | Ätest | ätest Ätest                         |
    |-------+-------------------------------------|
    | testa | NOTHING                             |
    | testA | NOTHING                             |
    | testä | testä testÄ                         |
    | testÄ | testä testÄ                         |

which is what is expected.

GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2017-03-21 build
from ffbb4684999 (I think) + patchset (I think).  I’ll rebase and try
again with fresher version.

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