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24.4; completing-read acts differently on functional collection

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>, Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21644: 24.4; completing-read acts differently on functional collection
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:12:13 +0300

On 10/13/2015 09:59 PM, Ryan C. Thompson wrote:

>> (info "(elisp) Programmed Completion") or
>> (info "(elisp) Basic Completion"), probably.
> Maybe the `completing-read' docstring should link to these info nodes.

This seems like it should suffice. Do you agree?

diff --git a/src/minibuf.c b/src/minibuf.c
index 4e5c17d..2cde8b0 100644
--- a/src/minibuf.c
+++ b/src/minibuf.c
@@ -1595,7 +1595,7 @@ PROMPT is a string to prompt with; normally it 
ends in a colon and a space.
 COLLECTION can be a list of strings, an alist, an obarray or a hash table.
 COLLECTION can also be a function to do the completion itself.
 PREDICATE limits completion to a subset of COLLECTION.
-See `try-completion' and `all-completions' for more details
+See Info node `(elisp)Basic Completion' for more details
  on completion, COLLECTION, and PREDICATE.

 REQUIRE-MATCH can take the following values:

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