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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 60252 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 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 17:41:40 +0100

> 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?

Heuristically, it worked here for many, many years.  And the prompt to
'Confirm' has my muscle memory react with RET which gets me

user-error: Symbol’s function definition is void: set-face-a

and I have to start all over again.

martin
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