Re: X font completion is buggy

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2015-07-26 14:41:46 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jul 26, 11:10pm, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> }
> } $ xterm -fn -adobe-helvetica-bold--n--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-[]
> } 
> } but the cursor shouldn't be at the end because after "bold-",
> } there should be i, o or r. If I type [TAB], I get:
> 
> If you look at this list, there are three different ways to disambiguate:
> 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-2 
> } -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> 
> You can add i/o/r after "bold-" to choose to one of the font styles,
> or you can type a/o after "n" to choose the width, or you can type
> 1 or 2 after "59-" to narrow the character sets.
> 
> I believe completion always chooses the point of disambiguation with
> the longest common prefix (common to the partial completions, not
> common to the full list of matches).  If you then type "2" and hit
> TAB, that's no longer ambiguous so the cursor moves back to the "n"
> because that is still ambiguous, and then if you type "o" and hit
> TAB it moves back yet again.

But if I type "1", how can I disambiguate between -1 and -15 so that
the cursor moves back to the "n"?

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