bug#13363: Documentation bug - nXML mode: C-return is not defined as stated

[Jambunathan K]

John Brown <johnbrown_105@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello Glenn,
>
>
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>> 
>> John Brown wrote:
>> 
>>>  The nXML mode documentation distributed with Emacs (24.2.1)
>>>  states:
>>> 
>>>  <C-return> performs completion on the symbol preceding point.
>> 
>> That was fixed in the sources some time ago.
>> 
>>>  The GNU Emacs manual at
>>>  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html:
>>>  also states:
>>> 
>>>  "The major mode for editing XML documents is called nXML mode.
>>>  This is a powerful major mode that can recognize many existing
>>>  XML schema and use them to provide completion of XML elements
>>>  via C-<RET> or M-<TAB> ..."
>> 
>> Thanks, I fixed that in the source too. (The web-page probably won't be
>> regenerated till at least when 24.3 is released though.)
>> 
>
> Looking at nxml-mode.el, I see that the correct keystroke is M-TAB.
> Since this combination is used to switch from one main application
> window to the next by the MS Windows and Ubuntu Linux GUIs (and
> no doubt other GUIs because they tend to copy one another),it is
> likely to be a problem for many users.
>
> I recommend that the documentation suggest ways to work around
> this.

I use C-M-i.

    ,---- NEWS
    | ** nXML mode no longer binds C-RET to `nxml-complete'.
    | Completion is now performed via `completion-at-point', bound to C-M-i
    | or M-TAB.  If `nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag' is non-nil (the
    | default), this performs tag completion.
    `----




>
> Regards,
> John brown.
>
>
>
>

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