GNU bug report logs - #6756
23.2; `describe-function' describing functions that aren't

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Cc: 6756 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6756: 23.2; `describe-function' describing functions that  aren't
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:55:05 +0200

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 19:22, MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com> wrote:

>  a) the completing-read arg PREDICATE is `fboundp' and REQUIRE-MATCH
>    is t;

REQUIRE-MATCH = t means that "the user is not allowed to exit unless
the input is (or completes to) an element of COLLECTION or is null."

Note the "(or completes to)". Now, completion-styles is (basic
partial-completion emacs22), and description for partial-completion is

  Completion of multiple words, each one taken as a prefix.
  [...etc etc...]
  Additionally the user can use the char "*" as a glob pattern.

So it seems to be working as expected: describe-function* completes to
an element of COLLECTION according to the partial-completion style.

If you try remove partial-completion from completion-styles you'll get
the behavior you want.

    Juanma
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