From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3717: M-x man completion Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:01:00 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y6lsmjuz.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87bpo6p3de.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87ab3pfqj0.fsf@jidanni.org> <87ocmsqa7z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d4364lmh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87bpiqtde7.fsf@blah.blah> <87aay94ouh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87einl54kb.fsf@blah.blah> <878wdskj6g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87zl68514k.fsf@blah.blah> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259316482 8095 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 10:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, jidanni@jidanni.org To: Kevin Ryde Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 11:07:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDxjz-0007eQ-C1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:07:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDxjy-0007K3-Ly for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDxjf-00079p-DJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDxja-00074q-HA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52748 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDxja-00074m-DU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:52806) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDxjZ-0000mB-NC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nARA7Mhj006045; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:07:23 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAR9o5WL003821; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:50:05 -0800 Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:50:05 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Juri Linkov Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:50:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3717 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3717-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3717.12593150643312 (code B ref 3717); Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:50:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3717) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 27 Nov 2009 09:44:24 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mx1.starman.ee (smtp-out3.starman.ee [85.253.0.5]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAR9iM09003308 for <3717@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:44:24 -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.54.21.cable.starman.ee [82.131.54.21]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0154B3F4146; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:44:14 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <87zl68514k.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:15:23 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:07:30 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32983 Archived-At: >> But then you don't see additional information about section names that >> may help to select the necessary manual. > > You mean on a unique name, like say "gunzip"? I wasn't terribly > interested in the section number as a suffix if it's unique. You are not interested in the section number for "gunzip" because you already know that it's a command name. I'm not interested in the section number for known commands too. But in the rest 90% cases, I would be terribly interested in the section number to know if the unique name belongs to 3erl or 3form or 3menu or 3nas or 3ncurses or 3perl or 3pm or 3readline or 3ssl or 3tiff or 3x. > Omitting it makes for a cleaner list; and it could be a bit confusing > if the bare name is present for duplicated pages but not present for > unique ones. I'd rather get rid of the bare name than of the section number appended to the manual name. > But perhaps it's personal preference. We could add an option. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/