bug#51017: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation about completion of obsolete commands

bug#51017: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation about completion of obsolete commands

[Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

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The documentation about M-x completion of obsolete commands is out of
date for Emacs 28.  The attached patch corrects the problem.  If you
agree with the change, please commit it on my behalf.

Thanks.


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From 792dc88da81905c602ab48918bc4c9345a5b218c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Mart=C3=ADn?= <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 23:41:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation about how M-x completes obsolete
 commands

* doc/emacs/m-x.texi (M-x): Mention that Emacs offers completion for
commands marked obsolete in the current version of Emacs.
---
 doc/emacs/m-x.texi | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/m-x.texi b/doc/emacs/m-x.texi
index d35a835154..7b9b40388c 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/m-x.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/m-x.texi
@@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ M-x
 
 @cindex obsolete command
   When @kbd{M-x} completes on commands, it ignores the commands that
-are declared @dfn{obsolete}; for these, you will have to type their
-full name.  (Obsolete commands are those for which newer, better
-alternatives exist, and which are slated for removal in some future
-Emacs release.)
+were declared @dfn{obsolete} in any previous major version of Emacs;
+for these, you will have to type their full name.  Commands that were
+marked obsolete in the current version of Emacs are listed.  (Obsolete
+commands are those for which newer, better alternatives exist, and
+which are slated for removal in some future Emacs release.)
 
 @vindex read-extended-command-predicate
   In addition, @kbd{M-x} completion can exclude commands that are not
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bug#51017: 28.0.60; [PATCH] Update documentation about completion of obsolete commands

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> The documentation about M-x completion of obsolete commands is out of
> date for Emacs 28.  The attached patch corrects the problem.  If you
> agree with the change, please commit it on my behalf.

Thanks; pushed to emacs-28.

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