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changeset 76303:686197fbacfa
(Basic Completion): Minor clarification.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:19:45 +0000 |
| parents | 41d7e08e95b7 |
| children | b996cc5f1896 |
| files | lispref/minibuf.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/minibuf.texi Sun Mar 04 18:19:05 2007 +0000 +++ b/lispref/minibuf.texi Sun Mar 04 18:19:45 2007 +0000 @@ -629,12 +629,11 @@ If @var{collection} is an alist (@pxref{Association Lists}), the permissible completions are the elements of the alist that are either strings, symbols, or conses whose @sc{car} is a string or symbol. -Symbols are converted to strings using @code{symbol-name}. -Other elements of the alist are ignored. (Remember that in Emacs Lisp, -the elements of alists do not @emph{have} to be conses.) As all -elements of the alist can be strings, this case actually includes -lists of strings or symbols, even though we usually do not think of -such lists as alists. +Symbols are converted to strings using @code{symbol-name}. Other +elements of the alist are ignored. (Remember that in Emacs Lisp, the +elements of alists do not @emph{have} to be conses.) In particular, a +list of strings or symbols is allowed, even though we usually do not +think of such lists as alists. @cindex obarray in completion If @var{collection} is an obarray (@pxref{Creating Symbols}), the names