From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006a01c871b5$33b5a260$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006901c871b3$f4da48d0$2d58908d@us.oracle.com>
> emacs -Q
> Go to an Info manual, or even the top level (dir).
> Use Info-goto-node, choosing the completion candidate `*'.
> The current node stays current, but now the node name in the
> mode line etc.
> is `*'.
>
> IMO, `*' should not be one of the available completion candidates.
>
> `*' gets added by `Info-build-node-completions'. It seems to have only
> an internal purpose, and it should be removed from the final set of
> completions.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2008-01-30 on PRETEST
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags
> -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'
I should have added that after you do `Info-goto-node *' the Info buffer is
widened, so you see all of the node headers in raw form. So this is a worse
bug than simply allowing an extra `*' completion that doesn't do anything
except mess up the mode line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-17 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-17 22:25 Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node Drew Adams
2008-02-17 22:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-02-17 23:05 ` Bastien
2008-02-17 23:22 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 23:53 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18 0:56 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-19 0:48 ` Bastien
2008-02-21 19:24 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18 0:02 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18 0:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18 0:54 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 1:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-18 3:37 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 4:12 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-18 11:56 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-02-18 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-18 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-19 15:45 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-19 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 3:23 ` Drew Adams
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