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bug#3717: M-x man completion
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#3717: M-x man completion |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:54:19 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> If you complete from "li" it gives "lib (", which will make man error
>> out.
> What man error? I see no problem here. If the user sees an incomplete
> manual name with the opening parenthesis, then s?he continues to complete it
> to the specific section name.
Maybe, but maybe the user doesn't want to care. "lib" is a valid name
to pass to man, so completion should provide it. After all, M-x man
can show *all* the pages found, so the choice of section can be
made later.
>> I also put in stuff like "3erl lib", since you can enter it like that to
>> man, and it can be easier to give the section first then complete among
>> pages in the section, as opposed to a section suffix.
> This duplicates completions for every manual name with e.g.
> "lib (3erl)" and "3erl lib".
Yes, a better way to do it would be to consider "3erl " "as
a directory", i.e. the completion table should recognize it and set
a "boundary" right there. It doesn't need to provide completion for the
section names.
> For the format "lib (3erl)", you can narrow all completions to the
> specific section with `M-x man RET * (3erl) TAB'. But for the
> "3erl lib" format, it is easier to type `M-x man RET 3erl TAB'.
You could also do it via M-x man RET 3erl C-a TAB since a * is
implicitly added at point.
Stefan
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, (continued)
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/24
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/25
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/25
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/25
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/25
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/25
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion,
Stefan Monnier <=
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/27
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/28
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/28
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/28
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, jidanni, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Kevin Ryde, 2009/11/26
- bug#3717: M-x man completion, Juri Linkov, 2009/11/27