bug#47711: bug#48841: bug#47711: [PATCH VERSION 2] Add new `completion-filter-completions` API and deferred highlighting

[João Távora]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 3:26 PM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 16.08.2021 14:37, João Távora wrote:
> > I am not a native English speaker, and maybe you don't understand
> > my language.  Another way to explain what I am talking  is to talk about
> > "bug reproduction".  You say there's a bug in my patch, I am asking you
> > for a "bug reproduction recipe" as defined by most,  if not all, the results
> > you get by searching "bug reproduction recipe" in the Google search engine.
>
> I hope you, or at least other here, can someday see and understand that
> asking to prove standard engineering practices from the first
> principles, time and time again in various discussions, is not a way to
> encourage good atmosphere or promote project participation.
>
> Are you really not imagine a buggy scenario coming from a combination of
> downstream uses of 'completion-score' property, different completion
> styles (some setting it, and some not), and a completion table that
> either uses global string values outright, or caches them for the
> duration of the current command?

I don't. Please prime my imagination with some illustration based on
your fertile imagination of these things and the patches I have provided.
Oh and spare me the lectures.  Thanks.

João