bug#43300: [PATCH] Make M-x show new commands for obsolete aliases

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> Please find attached two patches that tweaks how M-x
>> (execute-extended-command) works:
>>
>> 1. Show obsolete commands, and give their new name as an annotation.
>
> I noticed that some commands have " (nil)" appended as annotations
> in M-x completions, e.g. 'M-x browse- TAB'.  Looks like " (nil)"
> is returned in read-extended-command--annotation:
>
>           (obsolete
>            (format " (%s)" (car obsolete)))

Is the following sufficient?

diff --git a/lisp/simple.el b/lisp/simple.el
index bb28145502..2acceef6a1 100644
--- a/lisp/simple.el
+++ b/lisp/simple.el
@@ -1964,13 +1964,14 @@ read-extended-command
      #'commandp t nil 'extended-command-history)))
 
 (defun read-extended-command--annotation (command-name)
-  (let* ((fun (and (stringp command-name) (intern-soft command-name)))
+  "Return annotation for COMMAND-NAME in M-x completion."
+  (let* ((fun (intern-soft command-name))
          (binding (where-is-internal fun overriding-local-map t))
          (obsolete (get fun 'byte-obsolete-info))
          (alias (symbol-function fun)))
     (cond ((symbolp alias)
            (format " (%s)" alias))
-          (obsolete
+          ((car obsolete)
            (format " (%s)" (car obsolete)))
           ((and binding (not (stringp binding)))
            (format " (%s)" (key-description binding))))))

Thanks,

-- 
Basil