GNU bug report logs - #10770
info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer

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Message #29 received at 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#10770: info-display-manual replaces existing *info* buffer
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:16:34 -0800

> Also because typing "emacs" or "make" is shorter than "*info*<emacs>"
> etc., and completion doesn't help much when all the candidates begin
> with the same substring.

Huh?  Prefix completion for things that share a common prefix just abstracts
away that prefix (by completing to it), so you do not have to type it.  The
difference would be that completion would help with the *non*-prefix part.

(I do not have a particular opinion about the rest of what was discussed.  Just
pointing out that it is not the case that completion doesn't help much when all
candidates share a common prefix.)

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