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Location : parse_addr6(), p0f-client.c:67 X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::431 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248518 Archived-At: On 02.05.2020 20:25, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Other than that, feel free to propose any number of aliases that you > think might make sense. I promise not to object, just make comments > and speak my opinions about the proposed aliases. Very good. We should indeed pick and choose. And we've already done a lot of that in another thread. > Yes, because that use case shouldn't be served by completion, IMO. If > someone wants a complete list of APIs, we should present the list of > APIs. Completion is for_using_ one of the candidates, not about > looking through the entire list. It's about finding it, though. The best one for one's purpose. We don't have ideal options anyway: the manual is verbose, you have to skip a lot of text, and it doesn't cover *all* the functions available, just the basics defined in the core library. Apropos is exhaustive, but unsorted.