"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>  
>> 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.

Agreed.

>> `*' 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.

I don't even understand the internal purpose of this.  Unless someone
tells me this patch is wrong, I will apply it in one week.