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bug#7056: 24.0.50; Spurious vars in C-h v completion
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#7056: 24.0.50; Spurious vars in C-h v completion |
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Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:16:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
> I see this in Emacs 23.1 onwards, including latest bzr trunk.
> emacs -Q
> C-h v beg RET
> This pops up a *Help* buffer with the contents
> beg is void as a variable.
> Documentation:
> Not documented as a variable.
> Similar for `end', `v', and `val'. I think `v' and `val' come from
> let-bindings in describe-variable; not sure about `beg' and `end'.
> The call to completing-read in describe-variable should do something to
> filter out these false completions.
Yup. We could wait for the lexbind branch to be merged, or we can switch
to using lexical-let in that code.
Stefan