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Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node


From: Bastien Guerry
Subject: Re: Info-build-node-completions has an extra `*' node
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:56:46 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> I would prefer the completion to list the possible file names as it
>> lists the possible node names in a normal Info node, without the need
>> to enter a parenthesis first.
>
> This would break the standard format of the node name `(FILE)NODE'.
>
> `g' lists all node names (the virtual Info file `dir' has only one
> node `Top' so it is right for `g' to list only this single node.)
> And according to this format a file name should be inside parenthesis,
> so completion for the file name after parenthesis is more correct.

What about putting an opening parenthesis in the default list of
completion for the (dir) buffer?  For now the opening parenthesis is
like a secret key for those who know that the list of visible items 
only reflects files, not real nodes.

-- 
Bastien




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