From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: RE: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:04 -0800 Message-ID: <006a01c871b5$33b5a260$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> References: <006901c871b3$f4da48d0$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203287693 18039 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 22:34:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:34:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 23:35:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQs6M-0000qz-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQs5s-0000wB-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQs5o-0000w6-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQs5m-0000vu-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQs5m-0000vr-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQs5m-0003LU-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JQs5l-0007AP-SW for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQs5j-0003Kc-37 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQs5i-0003KW-OS for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m1HMYVua022239 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:34:32 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m1HMKKXI023880 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:34:31 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3578765631203287629; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:33:49 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.45) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:33:49 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <006901c871b3$f4da48d0$2d58908d@us.oracle.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: Achxs/R6qaWb9hMXRQ+Vm4eQkC4p7QAAPT7A X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89407 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21165 Archived-At: > emacs -Q > Go to an Info manual, or even the top level (dir). > Use Info-goto-node, choosing the completion candidate `*'. > The current node stays current, but now the node name in the > mode line etc. > is `*'. > > IMO, `*' should not be one of the available completion candidates. > > `*' gets added by `Info-build-node-completions'. It seems to have only > an internal purpose, and it should be removed from the final set of > completions. > > In GNU Emacs 22.1.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) > of 2008-01-30 on PRETEST > Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 > configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags > -Ic:/gnuwin32/include' I should have added that after you do `Info-goto-node *' the Info buffer is widened, so you see all of the node headers in raw form. So this is a worse bug than simply allowing an extra `*' completion that doesn't do anything except mess up the mode line.