From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: naesten@gmail.com, 18044@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18044: 24.3; `info-display-manual' should use completing input for manual name
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:06:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7gx85hy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6mpmfgv.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:06:56 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:06:56 +0200
> Cc: 18044@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think it would be possible to extract the necessary machinery from the
> > function `Info-read-node-name' and its -1/-2 friends, but I don't grok
> > completion well enough to do it myself, and one of the core
> > (not-info-specific) completion functions involved isn't even documented.
>
> Hm... looking at the command in question, it does have completion over
> manual names:
>
> commit 010db6da6527d16736fd3c2b607058dd35a70c9a
> Author: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> AuthorDate: Sun Dec 2 14:41:22 2012 +0800
>
> * info.el (info-display-manual): Add completion.
>
> And this was added before 24.3 was released, so it should also have it.
> So is this talking about some other form of completion, or was the bug
> report about an earlier Emacs release?
This feature was added only in Emacs 24.4, not in 24.3.
I think this bug can be closed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-14 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-18 2:26 bug#18044: 24.3; `info-display-manual' should use completing input for manual name Samuel Bronson
2014-07-18 3:47 ` Drew Adams
2014-07-18 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-14 9:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-14 12:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-14 13:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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