From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 20:53:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bf65d3f-0b1c-ff70-8d43-46c136ab523f@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1vzmw33.fsf@gnu.org>
On 04.05.2020 20:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc:rms@gnu.org,emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
>> Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 20:42:03 +0300
>>
>> On 04.05.2020 20:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Cc:emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>>> From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
>>>> Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 20:12:40 +0300
>>>>
>>>> On 04.05.2020 17:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>> I think it would be better to do it the other way around: make "C-h f"
>>>>> look at the arguments and the first line of the doc string (and
>>>>> similarly with "C-h v")
>>>> Unusual behavior aside, I don't think our general completion logic will
>>>> work well when input has little correlation to the completion results
>>>> (function names).
>>> I don't understand the response: what I wrote had no relation to
>>> completion whatsoever. Maybe you responded to the wrong message?
>> Not at all.
>>
>> 'C-h f' uses completing-read to help the user input the function they'll
>> see the description for.
> Yes, but that's entirely unrelated to Richard's question and to my
> response. They had to do with what these command search, not how they
> invoke completion of their arguments.
>
> Hmm... I think I see the confusion: I said "C-h f", but had "C-h a" in
> mind. Sorry.
Hm. You also said "and also C-h v". Which works very much like "C-h f".
But for "C-h a" that can make sense, of course.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-02 18:28 Add some aliases for re-related functions Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:43 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:33 ` Michael Albinus
2020-05-03 19:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 19:48 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-02 20:10 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-02 20:13 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 17:53 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2020-05-02 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-02 21:51 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 15:00 ` 조성빈
2020-05-02 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-04 10:07 ` João Távora
2020-05-03 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 16:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 22:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-05-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 23:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 0:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-02 22:44 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-03 4:37 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03 8:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-03 9:55 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-03 10:26 ` tomas
2020-05-03 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-03 19:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 7:32 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 8:20 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail (was: Add some aliases for re-related functions) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 8:45 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 15:09 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 15:25 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 8:13 ` HTML display in Gnus (was: Sending plaintext with Gmail) Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-05 8:24 ` HTML display in Gnus Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-05-05 9:26 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-07-17 17:14 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-05-04 15:39 ` Sending plaintext with Gmail Andreas Schwab
2020-05-04 16:51 ` Add some aliases for re-related functions Drew Adams
2020-05-04 17:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 18:17 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 18:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 2:48 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 3:08 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-04 10:16 ` João Távora
2020-05-04 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
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