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bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ?
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#25441: 26.0.50; Can't autocomplete symbol names ending in ? |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:16:43 -0500 |
tag 25441 notabug
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 13. Jan. 2017 um
> 19:04 Uhr:
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>> In *scratch*, write
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>> (defun foo? ())
>>
>> and hit C-j to evaluate the definition. Then, try to display the help
>> screen of foo? using C-h f foo? RET. The minibuffer won't let you enter
>> ? or auto-complete foo to foo?, even though ? can be part of a symbol.
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> I've just found that the Emacs manual documents this behavior (? prints a
> list of possible completions). Given that ? can only have one function, and
> the current one does make sense, this behavior is rather a design choice
> than a bug. Closing.
For the record, this can be changed by unbinding
`minibuffer-completion-help' from `minibuffer-local-completion-map':
(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map "?" nil)