From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Substring matching for info index command Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:56:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <160e661a-92b3-4971-bd28-e19913db0038@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417964211 24243 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 14:56:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:56:51 +0000 (UTC) To: Tom , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 15:56:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxdGK-00010g-U9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:56:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxdGI-0004xX-HE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:56:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxdFy-0004wM-9y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxdFn-0000BA-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:39488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxdFn-0000B3-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sB7Eu4T8022947 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:56:05 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB7Eu36E012728 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:56:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sB7Eu3JE020880; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:56:03 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101470 Archived-At: > > 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. >=20 > Thanks for your investigation, but why should info use > my input to gather completion candidates?=20 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.)