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#7499
Documentation: `comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions'
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Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:06:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> The term "help buffer" is apparently used here loosely to mean
> "auxiliary buffer helpful to the user".
>
Its less than apparent (to me at least) that such loose usage is helpful. :)
AFAICT `comint-dynamic-list-completions' is hardwired to "*Completions*".
Its docstring is equally suspect:
,---- (documentation 'comint-dynamic-list-completions)
|
| List in help buffer sorted completions. The meaning of
| common-substring is the same as in `display-completion-list'.
| Typing SPC flushes the help buffer.
|
`----
W/re `comint-dynamic-list-completions',
`comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions' (and any other similar such
comint docstrings), what would prob. be more "helpful to the user"
would be to explicitly document that return value is to
"*Completions*". :)
After all, there is no provision for an alternative destination
stream. Indeed, it is doubtful such alternatives could be made
available via `comint-dynamic-list-completions' given the complicated
interactions between windows/buffers/configurations and the dynamic bindings of
`standard-output' happening around the internal calls to
`display-completion-list' and `with-output-to-temp-buffer'.
> Stefan
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