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29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing

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Message #28 received at 52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#52839: 29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry
 is confusing
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 18:52:59 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:51:00 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The latter.  We then added the "M-X" binding for the new command that
> > always omits inapplicable commands from the completion, so now users
> > can have the cake and eat it, too.
> 
> That's not what `M-X' does, though -- it filters out commands that
> aren't particularly marked for the current mode, but there's always
> other commands that will be useful.

How is that different from what I said?

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