From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does M-x completion works Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:58:14 +0100 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <4b82ff9b$0$279$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4B83F1AD.3000604@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267188059 15925 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2010 12:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 26 13:40:55 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1NkzUx-0004Vz-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NkzUw-0000Z7-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:40:50 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4QkttRFYIYuEV+9ziqHDbg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (Win32) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177125 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72162 Archived-At: Le Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:44:54 +0100, Kevin Rodgers = a =E9crit: > No. Compare the Completion node of the Emacs manual with the Tags nod= e: > > | Some arguments allow "completion" to enter their value. This means > | that after you type part of the argument, Emacs can fill in the rest= , > | or some of it, based on what you have typed so far. > | ... > | For example, `M-x' uses the minibuffer to read the name of a > | command, so it provides a list of all Emacs command names for > | completion candidates. > > > | A "tags table" is a description of how a multi-file program is broke= n > | up into files. It lists the names of the component files and the na= mes > | and positions of the functions (or other named subunits) in each fil= e. > Thanks for the point Kevin. I was starting to feel lost and wondering if= I = did really understand the manual. So you confirm these are really = different things. I feel better now. -- = No-no, this isn't an oops ...or I hope (TM) - Don't blame me... I'm just= = not lucky