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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'Juanma Barranquero' <lekktu@gmail.com>, 4718@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4718: 23.1; C-h f gives doc for the wrong function
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:50:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F504510FC89423BB343D391BF94DC0B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpr8q6r1p.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>

> > The problem is when there is only one completion and you 
> > hit RET. For prefix completion, you can pretty much guess
> > what the completion is, especially for
> > long input.  For partial completion you have no idea.
> 
> BTW, you may want to try icomplete-mode.

I do use icomplete-mode. Always have.

I report the problem on behalf of Emacs and Emacs users, not especially on my
behalf as a particular user. What I use personally is not very relevant. What I
use wrt completion is in fact very different from vanilla Emacs, in any case.






      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13 23:49 bug#4718: 23.1; C-h f gives doc for the wrong function Drew Adams
2009-10-14  0:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14  1:49   ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14  3:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14  4:24       ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14 13:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 15:59           ` Drew Adams
2009-10-15  3:14             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14  3:32     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14  4:24       ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14  4:51         ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14  6:25           ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14 13:31             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 15:50               ` Drew Adams [this message]

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