Re: Awful completion buffer behaviour

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:56:00 +0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > I agree that this new behavior is an unpleasant surprise for me.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the month-long experiment
>> > with turning this on by default.  Is it to decide whether it will stay
>> > on in Emacs 29?  If so, the experiment can be terminated now: we will
>> > not make this the default, certainly not in Emacs 29, and maybe not
>> > even in Emacs 30.  It is too radical departure of age-old Emacs
>> > behavior in the default completion commands.
>> 
>> Thanks, will you mind if I install a change that documents the option
>> in the NEWS entry and changes its default value to nil now?
>
> I'd like to hear from Juri and Philip first.

The idea was to gather feedback, and this thread is one form of
feedback.  If the feature is as intrusive as described here (for which I
would like to apologise), then it seems like it should be disabled.

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic