help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Substring matching for info index command


From: Tom
Subject: Re: Substring matching for info index command
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:16:38 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> 
> In other words, the problem is not with completion; it is
> with the way `Info-index' gathers the completion candidates
> from the indexes.  It does that by simply searching for
> your input, as a prefix (prepended by `* ', which is what
> is on the index-entry line in the index.


Thanks for your investigation, but why should info use
my input to gather completion candidates? It should
gather all candiates and pass them them to 
completing-read, shouldn't it?

Isn't it a bug? Incosistent behavior with the
builtin completion-styles?





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]