bug#81629: 32.0.50; completion-pcm-leading-wildcard t

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:58:39 -0400

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Hi Spencer,

> Previously, it always moved point to the last wildcard in the
> string which could still potentially be expanded to match a
> completion.  However, if the desired completion has an empty
> string at the site of that wildcard, there's nothing the user
> could usefully type to continue completion: the user would have
> to manually move point.  So, it's better to move point to last
> wildcard where all the possible completions have non-empty text,
> if there is such a wildcard.  We do that now.

LGTM, thank you,


=== Stefan