Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to disable fancy completion in minibuffer ?

[Le Wang]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> wrote:
> * "Alexandre Oberlin" <email_through@migo.info> in gnu.emacs.help:
>> I don't know where the value of completion-category-overrides came
>> from. (setq completion-category-overrides '((buffer (styles basic))))
>> did the trick. I put it at the end of .emacs.
>
> Glad you could solve your initial problem!
>
> In fact, I did not go far enough when citing
> completion-category-overrides, because the value you had is indeed the
> default one and is not caused by any additional package. I should have
> checked that more precisely.
>
> This has even been raised on the emacs dev list some time ago, along
> with some bug reports related to the default completion being sometimes
> too "aggressive":

Defaults should be aggressive.  Time marches on.  Expectations of new
users change.

As such Emacs should evolve to continue attracting new users (and
indirectly new developers).  As long as there is a way to restore
non-aggressiveness, this is how it should be.


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Le