From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 65058@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65058: 30.0.50; `find-function' can find wrong function due to implicit completion while exiting minibuffer
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:34:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qgiuk5g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1f64eda-e7a4-f910-622c-43b43ddd4bb7@vodafonemail.de> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:46:12 +0200
> From: Jens Schmidt via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Start from emacs -Q
>
> M-x find-function RET shell-mode RET
>
> Pops you to sh-mode. Or
>
> M-x find-function RET vc-create-repo RET
>
> Pops to vc-git-create-repo.
>
> Which can be confusing.
>
> Maybe completion in `find-function-read' should be done like this:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> index bf890fc35a9..d393ccc759a 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ find-function-read
> (list (intern (completing-read
> (format-prompt "Find %s" symb prompt-type)
> obarray predicate
> - t nil nil (and symb (symbol-name symb)))))))
> + 'lambda nil nil (and symb (symbol-name symb)))))))
>
> (defun find-function-do-it (symbol type switch-fn)
> "Find Emacs Lisp SYMBOL in a buffer and display it.
>
> Ripped the symbol `lambda' from the completion of `load-file', not sure
> whether there is any better symbol.
>
> Present in Emacs 29 as well.
Stefan, any comments (to the problem and the proposed solution)?
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-04 19:46 bug#65058: 30.0.50; `find-function' can find wrong function due to implicit completion while exiting minibuffer Jens Schmidt via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-05 5:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-12 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-12 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-13 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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