GNU bug report logs - #61283
29.0.60; pcomplete-completions-at-point loses text properties, breaking pcomplete-from-help annotations

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Message #26 received at 61283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: liuhui1610 <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 61283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61283: 29.0.60; pcomplete-completions-at-point loses text
 properties, breaking pcomplete-from-help annotations
Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 21:37:53 +0000

>
> I just tried again and it seems the annotations work only in Shell but 
> not in Eshell. This is probably the reason why the issue was missed. In 
> Eshell the functionality never worked as intended after it got 
> installed. I didn't mean to exaggerate.
>

Yet ISTM that claiming that "the pcomplete help functionality never worked 
properly" is an exaggeration.  The feature is 'pcomplete-from-help', which 
extracts completion candidates from --help outputs, and is works (or 
mostly works).  A subfeature of that feature are the annotations, and 
these annotations do not work in one particular case, eshell.

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