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

[Eshel Yaron]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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
>> >> 
>> >> >  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.
>> >> 
>> >> 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?

AFAICT it would be more accurate (and relevant) to mention these
commands in the docstring of completing-read, not read-from-minibuffer.
But they are also pretty well documented in both the Emacs manual and
the ELisp manual, so I'm not sure I see the importance of mentioning
them there as well...


Best,

Eshel