Re: `C-h v' may offer too many symbols

[Juanma Barranquero]

2011/3/10 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:

> `C-h v' offers completion candidates like :AFTER and :border which are
> not documented and self-quoting.  Is that a good idea?  They don't seem
> useful to me.  Maybe at least self-quoting symbols without a docstring
> should be excluded.

Yes, it is a bit silly complete keywords, which are not variables by definition.
I'm going to install this trivial fix.

    Juanma



2011-03-10  Juanma Barranquero  <address@hidden>

        * help-fns.el (describe-variable): Don't complete keywords.
        Suggested by Teodor Zlatanov <address@hidden>.


=== modified file 'lisp/help-fns.el'
--- lisp/help-fns.el    2011-02-24 08:26:25 +0000
+++ lisp/help-fns.el    2011-03-10 19:32:46 +0000
@@ -593,8 +593,9 @@
                                  "Describe variable: ")
                                obarray
                                '(lambda (vv)
-                                  (or (boundp vv)
-                                      (get vv 'variable-documentation)))
+                                 (unless (keywordp vv)
+                                   (or (boundp vv)
+                                       (get vv 'variable-documentation))))
                                t nil nil
                                (if (symbolp v) (symbol-name v))))
      (list (if (equal val "")