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C-h f abbrev TAB
You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
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> C-h f abbrev TAB
>=20
> You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
Of course. As well you should.
> By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
> names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
This is ridiculous, IMHO. Users are not supposed to use
"internal" functions directly? Nonsense.
Besides which, "use" is meaningless here. Completing
a name doesn't imply calling the name as a function or
evaluating it as a variable. And there is nothing wrong
with doing either of things, anyway. Would you also
forbid `mapatoms' from using (acting on) "internal" names?
"Minibuffer completions" means multiple things, anyway.
Anyone can use `completing-read' or any other minibuffer
completion function in a way that does not complete
"internal" names, if they want to.
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> From: Philipp Stephani
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:09:05 +0100
>
> C-h f abbrev TAB
>
> You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
> By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
> names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
I disagree: "C-h f" is not only for users, it's also for developers.
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> From: Philipp Stephani
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:09:05 +0100
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> C-h f abbrev TAB
>
> You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
> By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
> names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
How do you define "internal functions", and who says users can't use
them? If that is indeed true, it should be written in big letters
somewhere.
See also Bug#29876, which is about clarifying the "internal function"
idea.
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: Philipp Stephani
>> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:09:05 +0100
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>> C-h f abbrev TAB
>>
>> You'll get completions for internal functions such as abbrev--describe.
>> By default minibuffer completions shouldn't complete such internal
>> names, as users aren't supposed to use them directly.
>
> I disagree: "C-h f" is not only for users, it's also for developers.
It seemed like everybody who chimed in didn't support the suggestion, so
I'm closing this bug report.
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tags 30206 wontfix
close 30206