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Re: Substring matching for info index command
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Tom |
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Re: Substring matching for info index command |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Dec 2014 14:16:38 +0000 (UTC) |
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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?