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Re: Patch: completion -vs- duplicates
> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <dan@dberlin.org> writes:
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> Eli> The rest--how to display the candidates, whether to filter out
> Eli> duplicates, etc.--is up to the UI's completion machinery.
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> It always makes sense to filter duplicates when doing textual
> completion. What value can there be in completing to the second of
> two identical items?
Ha, that code.
I suspect you're both right. 2c worth. The underlying code should be
using the most efficient mechanism available to complete things.
However the ``(gdb) complete'' command should be stripping duplicates.
Tom, what exactly does Insight need? Probably should do the right thing
and MI the interface.
Andrew