GNU bug report logs - #52202
29.0.50; try-completion, all-completions support for a list of strings COLLECTION is not documented in their docstrings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org>

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.50

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org>
Cc: 52202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#52202: 29.0.50; try-completion, all-completions support for a list of strings COLLECTION is not documented in their docstrings
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 04:57:21 +0100

Matt Armstrong <matt <at> rfc20.org> writes:

> Then I realized that the lisp reference manual is in good shape.  This
> patch copies text almost verbatim from it.  So, the diff is both large
> but hopefully not hard to verify in review.

In these cases, we usually just say "See (elisp)Section" in the doc
strings, and leave the description of the complex data structures to the
manual.

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