Re: How does M-x completion works

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:44:54 +0100, Kevin Rodgers  
<kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> a écrit:
> No.  Compare the Completion node of the Emacs manual with the Tags node:
>
> | Some arguments allow "completion" to enter their value.  This means
> | that after you type part of the argument, Emacs can fill in the rest,
> | or some of it, based on what you have typed so far.
> | ...
> |    For example, `M-x' uses the minibuffer to read the name of a
> | command, so it provides a list of all Emacs command names for
> | completion candidates.
>
>
> | A "tags table" is a description of how a multi-file program is broken
> | up into files.  It lists the names of the component files and the names
> | and positions of the functions (or other named subunits) in each file.
>

Thanks for the point Kevin. I was starting to feel lost and wondering if I  
did really understand the manual. So you confirm these are really  
different things. I feel better now.

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