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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 52839 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#52839: 29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:54:29 +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?

There's many commands that are applicable in any given mode that will
not be listed by `M-X'.  (I.e., all commands that are generally useful
across modes.)

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