From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
To: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, pipcet@protonmail.com,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
72787@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#72787: 31.0.50; Invalid describe-function completion candidates
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:22:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2v7xyu3c0.fsf@macmutant.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1frp3atfq.fsf@macbookpro-1.home> (Eshel Yaron's message of "Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:18:49 +0200")
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Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com> writes:
>> AFAIU, the feature here would be loading library foo just in time for
>> you to get help about symbol foo-bar. But the way this feature is
>> currently implemented is by including incorrect completion candidates.
>> That's not a feature, that's an implementation artifact, which
>> unfortunately happens to create an unpleasant UX :/
Thanks for your response. For me, this is what I see with
• emacs Q
• (setq completions-format 'vertical)
• C-h v TAB
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This is what I see when I do `package-initialize'; I have dash.el
installed as a dependency:
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>> So I suggest doing one of the following:
>>
>> - implement the feature differently, without this side-effect; or
From the second image above, I'd say that the feature isn't working
correctly.
> Correction: I forgot that there's already a way to opt-out, by setting
> help-enable-completion-autoload to nil.
This is what I see after setting `help-enable-completion-autoload' to
nil:
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Thanks for the pointer, I've set the variable to nil for now.
Best, Arash
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-11 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-24 10:54 bug#72787: 31.0.50; Invalid describe-function completion candidates Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-24 11:15 ` Pip Cet via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-26 1:41 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-26 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-26 23:57 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-31 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-01 17:41 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-01 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 4:56 ` Arash Esbati
2024-10-10 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-11 6:34 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 9:18 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 14:22 ` Arash Esbati [this message]
2024-10-11 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-12 9:41 ` Arash Esbati
2024-10-13 0:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-14 19:23 ` Arash Esbati
2024-10-14 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 7:35 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 23:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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