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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in help-fns+.el (was Re: Completion stopped working)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:58:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v41ff53.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 66EE123AB7DA413EB289E9A1FDD4DB94@us.oracle.com

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

>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. type 
>>    (message "hello")
>>    in scratch buffer
>> 3. with point on 'message', do 'C-h f' and you'll see:
>>    Describe function (default message):
>> 4. Do 'M-x load-file RET /path/to/help-fns+.el'
>> 5. with point on 'message', do 'C-h f' again and you'll see:
>>    Describe function: 

> What happens if you hit `M-n' - what default value is inserted in the
> minibuffer?  (I see `message' inserted.)

I see `message' too. 

> What happens if you hit `RET' - what function is described by default?
> (For me it is `message'.)

For me  it is `message' too. 

> IOW, from what I see, the only difference is whether the default value
> is shown in parens. Is that what you see also? Is that the problem, as
> you see it, or is there something else? Thx.

Yes, it seems this is the only problem - more an inconvenience than a
real bug. It would be nicer to see the default value in parens, but its
not a big issue then. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-29 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-16  9:50 Completion stopped working Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-16 10:00 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-04-16 10:24   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-16 10:33     ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-04-16 13:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-16 14:18       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-29  8:26   ` Bug in help-fns+.el (was Re: Completion stopped working) Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-29 13:32     ` Drew Adams
2013-04-29 14:10       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-29 14:17         ` Drew Adams
2013-04-29 16:58           ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2013-04-30  5:16             ` Drew Adams
2013-04-30  9:04               ` Thorsten Jolitz

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