Re: [External] : Re: Question about completion behavior

[Ergus]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 08:48:22PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
> > In case of no completions it will be formatted to: "0 possible
> > completions".
>
> Why?  Why wouldn't *Completions* just be
> removed?  And "[No match]" is already echoed.
In the original code there is a message to print when there are no
completions, that's where the original question came from. Actually the
new code is simpler.

> Sounds like things are getting more, not less,
> complicated for users (maybe overengineering?).
For the user everything is pretty much the same.

> Why would we ever say "0 possible completions"?
>
> Why bother with "possible"?  We never show
> IMpossible completions, do we?
>
> When there are no matches we just tell users
> there's no match.  Always have.  Simple.