From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 30206@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30206: 27.0.50; Minibuffer completion should not complete internal names
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:12:04 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40b11f47-467b-4d86-98e4-84f119e4607e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvr4d122mchq.fsf@a.muc.corp.google.com>
> C-h f abbrev TAB
>
> You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
Of course. As well you should.
> By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
> names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
This is ridiculous, IMHO. Users are not supposed to use
"internal" functions directly? Nonsense.
Besides which, "use" is meaningless here. Completing
a name doesn't imply calling the name as a function or
evaluating it as a variable. And there is nothing wrong
with doing either of things, anyway. Would you also
forbid `mapatoms' from using (acting on) "internal" names?
"Minibuffer completions" means multiple things, anyway.
Anyone can use `completing-read' or any other minibuffer
completion function in a way that does not complete
"internal" names, if they want to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-22 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-22 10:09 bug#30206: 27.0.50; Minibuffer completion should not complete internal names Philipp Stephani
2018-01-22 15:12 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-01-22 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-17 20:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-01-22 19:24 ` Charles A. Roelli
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