GNU bug report logs - #12456
24.2.50; Completion in `Info-goto-node' (cross-manual jump)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.2.50

Fixed in version 24.3.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 12456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12456: 24.2.50;
	Completion in `Info-goto-node' (cross-manual jump)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:57:04 +0200

> One question: if I do (from emacs -Q) `C-h r g ( e l i TAB TAB', I see
> two completion candidates: "elisp" and "elisp.info".  This is a bug,
> no?

I doubt its usefulness too because it doesn't allow TAB to add the
closing paren automatically as it does for a single completion,
but as a comment in `Info-read-node-name-2' says:

	  ;; If the file name ends in a standard suffix,
	  ;; add the unsuffixed name as a completion option.

So code adds both "elisp.info" with a standard suffix ".info"
and the unsuffixed name "elisp".

This means this intentionally is a feature, and not a bug.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 140 days ago.

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