From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Substring matching for info index command Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417961844 21661 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 14:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:17:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 15:17:19 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 1XxceE-0005ud-Ps for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:17:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxceE-00053t-BU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxcdu-00053g-1Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:17:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxcdo-0002iR-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxcdo-0002iN-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:16:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxcdm-0005dO-Gl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-240-150.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.240.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-240-150.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 15:16:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.240.150 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101467 Archived-At: Drew Adams oracle.com> writes: > > 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? 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?