Re: completing-read return meta-information?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It also achieves the goal of returning an absolute string from
> completing-read; that required advice on completing-read-default to call
> the new function completion-get-data-string.

Why can't you make completion-try-completion return an absolute filename
when there's only one match?  That would eliminate the need for
those advices.


        Stefan


PS: Also, as a user, I think I'd rather see names like "dir/file" than
"file<dir>".