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bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks f


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 11:48:13 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

> I'm actually wondering why Martin considers this a backward
> incompatibility.  set-face-a cannot be uniquely completed to a single
> function name, since there are 3 completion candidates.

But it can be completed to a string which is an exact match.

> So it sounds like the Emacs 28 behavior was actually a bug,

Whether it was the right behavior or not can be argued, but that's how
"must match" has behaved for many many years (probably at least since
Emacs-19), AFAIK.

> which is now fixed?

We may as well revert that part of my patch.


        Stefan






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