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- From: jackr@wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: How Does M-x resolve ambiguities?
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:00:43
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Suppose, in GNU Emacs, you have two commands (meaning M-x'able
- things), where one's name is a proper head of the other (xxx and
- xxxyyy). When you type "M-x xxx<rtn>", you don't seem to get a
- consistent result: sometimes you get the short, exact match, sometimes
- the longer partial match. Why is that? Is there some way I can
- influence this preference?
-
- I have several such cases. I think I always prefer that the shorter,
- exact match be used, and it mostly is. But one pair goes the other
- way, and I'm sure I don't want it to! The "offending" pair are both
- autoloaded, one from site-init:
-
- (autoload 'gnuscope ...)
-
- one from ~/.emacs:
-
- (autoload 'gnus ...)
-
-
-
- Jack Repenning 1-875 jackr@wpd.sgi.com
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