From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
"Ryan C. Thompson" <rct@thompsonclan.org>,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Cc: 21644@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21644: 24.4; completing-read acts differently on functional collection
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:07:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5620159C.3060401@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <917e38a9-d74b-4e41-bc7b-90aeee69584c@default>
On 10/15/2015 11:28 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> No one has said anything that would introduce another bug.
> It's about fixing this bug, by getting users to the information
> about function-valued COLLECTION. And that info is in node
> `Programmed Completion'.
>
> No one has said that users should not consult `Basic Completion'
> for info about `all-completions', `try-completion', and
> `test-completion'.
The current sentence that refers to the Info node would become wrong.
But I suppose an alternative wording might escape that problem.
Patch welcome.
> No one is asking users to read the whole `Completion' section.
> That is the section that covers all of the info about
> `completing-read', _if_ you insist on pointing to only one section.
If you link to Completion as a whole, the user might not know better
than to read it all.
> Really what should be done is to link from the `completing-read'
> doc string only to node `Minibuffer Completion', which is the
> node that documents `completing-read'.
I don't know about that: that page basically re-tells the docstring of
completing-read. Sending to it from that docstring seems redundant.
> It is a bug (IMHO) that the node that documents `completing-read'
> does not specify parameter COLLECTION - which is arguably the
> *most important* parameter.
You're probably right. Please send a patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-15 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-07 22:55 bug#21644: 24.4; completing-read acts differently on functional collection Ryan C. Thompson
2015-10-08 10:13 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-13 1:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-13 1:34 ` Ryan
2015-10-13 2:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-13 18:59 ` Ryan C. Thompson
2015-10-15 5:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-15 5:17 ` Ryan
2015-10-15 9:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-15 15:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-15 15:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-15 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-15 17:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-15 20:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-15 21:07 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2015-10-16 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 10:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-16 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 9:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-16 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-16 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-16 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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2015-10-16 15:53 ` Drew Adams
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