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#13363
Documentation bug - nXML mode: C-return is not defined as stated
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Reported by: John Brown <johnbrown_105 <at> yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 17:28:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Fixed in version 24.2.92
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #19 received at 13363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> John Brown <johnbrown_105 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hello Glenn,
>>
>>
>> Glenn Morris wrote:
>>>
>>> John Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> The nXML mode documentation distributed with Emacs (24.2.1)
>>>> states:
>>>>
>>>> <C-return> performs completion on the symbol preceding point.
>>>
>>> That was fixed in the sources some time ago.
>>>
>>>> The GNU Emacs manual at
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html:
>>>> also states:
>>>>
>>>> "The major mode for editing XML documents is called nXML mode.
>>>> This is a powerful major mode that can recognize many existing
>>>> XML schema and use them to provide completion of XML elements
>>>> via C-<RET> or M-<TAB> ..."
>>>
>>> Thanks, I fixed that in the source too. (The web-page probably won't be
>>> regenerated till at least when 24.3 is released though.)
>>>
>>
>> Looking at nxml-mode.el, I see that the correct keystroke is M-TAB.
>> Since this combination is used to switch from one main application
>> window to the next by the MS Windows and Ubuntu Linux GUIs (and
>> no doubt other GUIs because they tend to copy one another),it is
>> likely to be a problem for many users.
>>
>> I recommend that the documentation suggest ways to work around
>> this.
>
> I use C-M-i.
Me too.
And ESC TAB is another synonym one can use.
> ,---- NEWS
> | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
> | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
> | or M-TAB. If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
> | default), this performs tag completion.
> `----
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