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bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:39:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm happy to see info-display-manual added to Emacs 28.1
It was added to Emacs 24.1, apparently?
> but the completions offered leave something to be desired.
Yes, indeed.
> First, they include manuals named "./" and "../" which
> shouldn't be there.
>
> Second I seem to see duplicates, if I complete with input
> "emacs" I see candidates "emacs" and "emacs.info.gz" and
> similar duplicates for emacs-mime and emacs-gnutls, so 3
> candidates show as 6. This may be an artifact of the
> macport build I'm using. It happens from emacs -q and I
> can't easily test on vanilla gnu emacs.
It happens on Debian, too. And it includes NEWS and README and other
non-manual things.
> Third it would be really nice if there were an
> affixation-function that added the one line description of
> the manual for a completions framework to show when
> completions-detailed is t. Perhaps it could get the info
> from Info-dir-contents?
That would indeed be nice, but it would require opening and partially
parsing hundreds of info files, so it would be painfully slow, I think.
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- bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues, Howard Melman, 2022/04/15
- bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues,
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- bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues, Howard Melman, 2022/04/16
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- bug#54961: 28.1; info-display-manual completions issues, Howard Melman, 2022/04/18
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