GNU bug report logs - #7056
24.0.50; Spurious vars in C-h v completion

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Reported by: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:03:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 7056 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7056: 24.0.50; Spurious vars in C-h v completion
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:04:06 -0400

I see this in Emacs 23.1 onwards, including latest bzr trunk.

emacs -Q
C-h v beg RET

This pops up a *Help* buffer with the contents

   beg is void as a variable.

   Documentation:
   Not documented as a variable.

Similar for `end', `v', and `val'.  I think `v' and `val' come from
let-bindings in describe-variable; not sure about `beg' and `end'.

The call to completing-read in describe-variable should do something to
filter out these false completions.


GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-09-16 on furry
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 106 days ago.

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