Re: [AUCTeX] Patch to tex-info.el to support node name completion in @..ref commands, and solve a few other pbs

[Vincent Belaïche]

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> Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] Patch to tex-info.el to support node name completion in 
> @..ref commands, and solve a few other pbs
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:32:42 +0100
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> Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> writes:
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>> I have not tested the change, but reading this:

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>> are to do more clever things it would be better to integrate the
>> change with reftex so that node references can also appear in the
>> reftex *toc* buffer and we also get all the multifile stuff. Anyway
>> the current code does not handle the @anchor{...} reference, just
>> nodes --- better than nothing.
>
> Patches welcome!
>

Some day yes, ... that is something I have wanted to do since the time
when I added the *toc* support to Texinfo.

>> PS: BTW, what is the use of calling `nreverse' over `nodes' at
>> function return ?
>
> Just to have the list of nodes be in the definition order. That's not
> really required but more intuitive.
>

The list is only used in a `completing-read' AFAIK, so the entries are
presented to user in alphabetical order whatever the order of the list.

> Bye,
> Tassilo

Bye,
   Vincent.