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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:23:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007901c87370$020088e0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JRUf7-0001Rd-UB@fencepost.gnu.org>

>     Hmm. Really? I don't see it in my copy of Emacs 20:
> 
>      In GNU Emacs 20.7.3 (i386-*-nt5.1.2600)
>       of Thu Dec 21 2000 on buffy
>      configured using `configure NT'
> 
>     It doesn't show up in *Completions*, and if I type `g * 
>     RET' it says [No match].
> 
> That surprises me, since I recall this feature is very old.
> I think it goes back to PDP10 Emacs.
> 
> Perhaps it was broken or missing from GNU Emacs for a while.

Maybe so. It's not in my vanilla Emacs 20.7, in any case. I don't recall
seeing it in Emacs 18 or 19, but perhaps I just didn't notice it.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20  3:23 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
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 [this message]

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