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RE: Substring matching for info index command
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Substring matching for info index command |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Dec 2014 06:56:05 -0800 (PST) |
> > 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?
I didn't say that it should. I said that it does.
Feel free to file a bug report: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
> 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?
My opinion? Yes. (And that's what Icicles does.)