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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Add some aliases for re-related functions
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> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 20:12:40 +0300
> 
> On 04.05.2020 17:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I think it would be better to do it the other way around: make "C-h f"
> > look at the arguments and the first line of the doc string (and
> > similarly with "C-h v")
> 
> Unusual behavior aside, I don't think our general completion logic will 
> work well when input has little correlation to the completion results 
> (function names).

I don't understand the response: what I wrote had no relation to
completion whatsoever.  Maybe you responded to the wrong message?