On 05.02.2020 17:27, João Távora wrote:
> With the original problem fixed, Dmitry came to what can be seen as a
> UI deficiency in fido-mode.
Not exactly. There have been several issues discussed in this report,
and it's really a problem that the user can't easily input something
that completing-read would allow.
So isn't that a UI deficiency in fido-mode? Mind you I'm calling it
a deficiency because it can't by definition be a bug. fido-mode is a new
thing and I _made_ the spec for it. Of course, I like your suggestions
for improvement (as I have showed here).
A new bug report has arrived since:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39407 It is now
erroneously marked as fixed because it has been merged with this one. We
should undo that.
The proposed workaround (using M-j) is itself problematic since it
allows you to input whatever even when a match is required. So there are
bug here.
Not sure that is a problem with fido-mode. I think it's reasonable
for a completer to bind exit-minibuffer, or to have something that
allows it to exit with whatever. exit-minibuffer doesn't honour
require-match (maybe it shouldn't) but it is the only such thing
that allows any kind of workaround, as far as I am aware.
So this isn't a problem with fido-mode. When there is something
else to fill this gap -- respect require-match and still allow to exit
easily with arbitrary input when that is nil -- then fido-mode will use
it.
> After analysing this with Stefan, we arrived
> at the conclusion that it was actually a problem in some longstanding
> minibuffer.el workings.
Not exactly. At least, icomplete-mode seems to work okay in both of
these respects (please correct me if I'm wrong).
was under the impression that it did, from reading the above thread.