GNU bug report logs - #65058
30.0.50; `find-function' can find wrong function due to implicit completion while exiting minibuffer

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Message #8 received at 65058 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 65058 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65058: 30.0.50;
 `find-function' can find wrong function due to implicit completion
 while exiting minibuffer
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 08:34:51 +0300

> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:46:12 +0200
> From:  Jens Schmidt via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Start from emacs -Q
> 
> M-x find-function RET shell-mode RET
> 
> Pops you to sh-mode.  Or
> 
> M-x find-function RET vc-create-repo RET
> 
> Pops to vc-git-create-repo.
> 
> Which can be confusing.
> 
> Maybe completion in `find-function-read' should be done like this:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> index bf890fc35a9..d393ccc759a 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el
> @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ find-function-read
>       (list (intern (completing-read
>                      (format-prompt "Find %s" symb prompt-type)
>                      obarray predicate
> -                   t nil nil (and symb (symbol-name symb)))))))
> +                   'lambda nil nil (and symb (symbol-name symb)))))))
> 
>   (defun find-function-do-it (symbol type switch-fn)
>     "Find Emacs Lisp SYMBOL in a buffer and display it.
> 
> Ripped the symbol `lambda' from the completion of `load-file', not sure
> whether there is any better symbol.
> 
> Present in Emacs 29 as well.

Stefan, any comments (to the problem and the proposed solution)?

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