From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Input method or help feature needed Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83ipwhuyz8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8339nmwjf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87aahu30d5.fsf@escher.home> <20110217.212415.1506249870047884288.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <83sjvlvckb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298044027 6586 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2011 15:47:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:47:07 +0000 (UTC) To: hanche@math.ntnu.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 16:47:02 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSXu-0001Ep-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:47:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqSXs-0007Jp-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46339 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqSXk-0007JA-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSXj-0006Pz-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:55053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PqSXi-0006OO-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LGT00200L26AC00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:44 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.140.24]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LGT002O6L5V9530@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:46:44 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83sjvlvckb.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:136186 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:53:24 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Adding a note about wildcards to that docstring would be helpful? > > After a look at the source, I suppose the wildcard feature is provided > > by completing-read, but I certainly didn't have a clue about that > > until now. > > If someone tells which function implements this feature, I will add > the appropriate information to the affected doc strings. It seems to be a general feature of completion. So I just added to the doc string a note about that possibility, since in this case it sounds important, due to the large number of potential completion candidates if one just types TAB TAB with an empty minibuffer.