From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 20105@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20105: 25.0.50; Emacs manual, `i HOME RET' sends you to `Moving Point', which is wrong
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:15:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zj7f1rox.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fe72841-fa75-4bbe-bb92-c14e68e0cd7a@default>
> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 20105@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Strange. I have no idea why you see only 2 candidates. I see all 4
> > in both the master and emacs-24 branch.
>
> I hear you. I don't know why. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit. Other than
> that, I don't know what else I can add here.
>
> But see below. I do have those two missing candidates as explicit
> entries in the manual indexes. It is completion that, for some reason,
> fails to pick them up. I don't see how you get different behavior, if
> we're both using `emacs -Q'.
Yes, "emacs -Q" here. And it's not a surprise you have those missing
candidates in the index, that's how I can see them ;-)
Are you sure you did 'i home TAB' in the latest manual, though?
> > > But why is `HOME' capitalized as a candidate if it points to info about
> > > the key?
> >
> > Don't know. Looks like some feature of completion.
>
> Really? My guess is instead that it comes from this explicit index
> entry (which I see in Emacs 24 but not 23): (I removed some whitespace.)
>
> * HOME: Moving Point. (line 57)
By "feature" I meant that it replaces "home" which I typed by "HOME",
for whatever reasons. The _only_ reason that I could accept as
legitimate is if _all_ completion candidates started with an
upper-case "HOME". But that's not what we have here. So it looks
like some attempt at being smart is misfiring.
> That's from the Key Index. However, note that there are also these
> two entries in the Variable Index, which seem not to be used when
> I do `i home TAB':
>
> * HOME: General Variables. (line 59)
> * HOSTNAME: General Variables. (line 70)
HOME _is_ used, except that completion removes duplicates (I guess).
As for HOSTNAME -- why should it be used? I don't see it used here.
> >From what I see, the only explicit index entries that include `HOME'
> (capitalized) refer to the home directory, not to the <home> key.
No, the entry that revers to "Moving Point" is also capitalized.
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