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Improve "Completion List Mode" NEWS entry

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Message #14 received at 50394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: ghe <at> sdf.org, 50394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#50394: Improve "Completion List Mode" NEWS entry
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 12:25:45 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,  ghe <at> sdf.org,  50394 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 09:52:31 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> as IIUC it is an implementation detail.
> >
> > ??? No, it's a complete major mode, according to its doc string.
> 
> I was also confused by that entry -- perhaps changing it to something to
> emphasise that it's an actual mode would help.  I.e.:
> 
> ** Completion List Mode
> 
> New key bindings have been added to 'completion-list-mode': 'n' and 'p'
> to navigate completions, (etc)

Sure, if that helps, why not.  I thought the conversion from a mode's
name to its Lisp symbol was something widely known.

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