GNU bug report logs - #60252
29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation

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Message #14 received at 60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, 60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60252: 29.0.60;
 help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:30:50 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>,  60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:54:15 -0500
> 
> > Stefan, any suggestions for more backward compatibility?
> 
> We can presumably try and do a better job in the completion table.
> I can't work on it now, tho,

Thanks.

I'm actually wondering why Martin considers this a backward
incompatibility.  set-face-a cannot be uniquely completed to a single
function name, since there are 3 completion candidates.  So it sounds
like the Emacs 28 behavior was actually a bug, which is now fixed?

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