From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 12456@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12456: 24.2.50; Completion in `Info-goto-node' (cross-manual jump)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:24:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0joUr6EyZeDbtR6727VZyfTrrhmaX+ro8eChi5kUJGNdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87han51zx8.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
>>> One question: if I do (from emacs -Q) `C-h r g ( e l i TAB TAB', I see
>>> two completion candidates: "elisp" and "elisp.info". This is a bug,
>>> no?
>>
>> I doubt its usefulness too because it doesn't allow TAB to add the
>> closing paren automatically as it does for a single completion,
>> but as a comment in `Info-read-node-name-2' says:
>>
>> ;; If the file name ends in a standard suffix,
>> ;; add the unsuffixed name as a completion option.
>>
>> So code adds both "elisp.info" with a standard suffix ".info"
>> and the unsuffixed name "elisp".
>>
>> This means this intentionally is a feature, and not a bug.
>
> But this doesn't mean it is a good feature. Another similar command
> `info-display-manual' doesn't add duplicates "elisp" and "elisp.info",
> so when you do `M-x info-display-manual RET TAB' it displays a single
> completion for every Info manual name without adding the suffix ".info".
Yes, I don't see the point of duplicating each available info manual.
So I consider that a bug, and I'd be glad if it was fixed.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-29 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-16 17:59 bug#12456: 24.2.50; Completion in `Info-goto-node' (cross-manual jump) Dani Moncayo
2012-09-16 19:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-17 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-18 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-18 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-18 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-18 14:26 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-09-18 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-18 20:03 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-15 15:30 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-27 20:42 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-27 21:37 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-12-27 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-28 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2012-12-29 0:24 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2012-12-29 21:59 ` Juri Linkov
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