From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 10770@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:16:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72A72E53E0D9483C9CA95A995F84D033@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hayzaktp.fsf@gnu.org>
> Also because typing "emacs" or "make" is shorter than "*info*<emacs>"
> etc., and completion doesn't help much when all the candidates begin
> with the same substring.
Huh? Prefix completion for things that share a common prefix just abstracts
away that prefix (by completing to it), so you do not have to type it. The
difference would be that completion would help with the *non*-prefix part.
(I do not have a particular opinion about the rest of what was discussed. Just
pointing out that it is not the case that completion doesn't help much when all
candidates share a common prefix.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 6:33 bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer Glenn Morris
2012-02-09 9:28 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-09 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-09 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-09 18:46 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-09 18:53 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-09 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-09 19:16 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-09 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-09 22:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-09 19:23 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-10 10:14 ` Juri Linkov
2012-02-10 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-09 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-02 6:24 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-10 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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