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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Substring matching for info index command
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:56:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160e661a-92b3-4971-bd28-e19913db0038@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20141207T151328-959@post.gmane.org>

> > In other words, the problem is not with completion; it is
> > with the way `Info-index' gathers the completion candidates
> > from the indexes.  It does that by simply searching for
> > your input, as a prefix (prepended by `* ', which is what
> > is on the index-entry line in the index.
> 
> Thanks for your investigation, but why should info use
> my input to gather completion candidates? 

I didn't say that it should.  I said that it does.
Feel free to file a bug report: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

> It should gather all candiates and pass them them to
> completing-read, shouldn't it?
> Isn't it a bug? Incosistent behavior with the
> builtin completion-styles?

My opinion?  Yes.  (And that's what Icicles does.)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-07 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-07 12:15 Substring matching for info index command Tom
2014-12-07 14:06 ` Drew Adams
2014-12-07 14:16   ` Tom
2014-12-07 14:56     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-12-07 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-07 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier

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