Re: emacs-30 8064b2a6798: Document undocumented completion commands

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 12:36:27 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:06:04 +0100
> >> 
> >> > diff --git a/src/minibuf.c b/src/minibuf.c
> >> > index f16880011f7..83b1fa024f8 100644
> >> > --- a/src/minibuf.c
> >> > +++ b/src/minibuf.c
> >> > @@ -1293,6 +1293,11 @@ barf_if_interaction_inhibited (void)
> >> >  DEFUN ("read-from-minibuffer", Fread_from_minibuffer,
> >> >         Sread_from_minibuffer, 1, 7, 0,
> >> >         doc: /* Read a string from the minibuffer, prompting with string 
> >> > PROMPT.
> >> > +While in the minibuffer, you can use 
> >> > \\<minibuffer-local-completion-map>\\[minibuffer-complete] and 
> >> > \\[minibuffer-complete-word] to complete your input.
> >> > +You can also use 
> >> > \\<minibuffer-local-map>\\[minibuffer-complete-history] to complete 
> >> > using history items in the
> >> > +input history HIST, and you can use \\[minibuffer-complete-defaults] to 
> >> > complete using
> >> > +the default items in DEFAULT-VALUE.
> >> > +
> >> >  The optional second arg INITIAL-CONTENTS is an obsolete alternative to
> >> >    DEFAULT-VALUE.  It normally should be nil in new code, except when
> >> >    HIST is a cons.  It is discussed in more detail below.
> >> 
> >> This part isn't quite right: read-from-minibuffer does not provide
> >> completion with minibuffer-complete[-word] by default.
> >> 
> >> How about just dropping these references?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't want to drop them, they are important.
> >
> > Why do you say these are not supported by default?  I can use them in
> > "emacs -Q", so what did I miss?
> 
> Hmm, C-h f read-from-minibuffer now says "While in the minibuffer, you can
> use TAB and SPC to complete your input."  But read-from-minibuffer doesn't
> provide such completion, by default it uses minibuffer-local-map, in which
> both keys are self-inserting.  Do you see something different?

Please help me make this accurate without losing the important
information about these commands.  Okay?