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30.0.92; js-find-symbol automatically activates ido-mode

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 74615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#74615: 30.0.92; js-find-symbol automatically activates ido-mode
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:05:41 +0200

On 30/11/2024 10:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> js-find-symbol/js--read-symbol reads a symbol via ido-completing-read
>> and automatically activates ido-mode. For users of other completion
>> systems (default completion, Icomplete/Fido, Vertico, Helm, ...) this is
>> not desired. Icomplete/Fido/Vertico/etc. replace Ido and provide similar
>> behavior for general completing-read.
> This code is there since the day js.el was added, so I don't think
> removing the activation of ido-mode is something we can do

FWIW we've removed this command from the default js-mode bindings last 
year (9cbf0bb3ee88) and haven't heard any complaints, so it might not 
have too many users these days. Cleaning it up sounds reasonable.

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