[gnu.emacs.bug] info menu-completion

stampe@UHCCUX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU (David Stampe) (11/22/89)

In GNU Emacs 18.51.3 of Mon Jun  6 1988 on uhccux (berkeley-unix)

When looking at an info mode with items

* XX::
* X::

in that order, if you type "mX<RET>" to select the second item,
automatic completion changes this to XX, and you go to the XX node.
The only way to get to X is using "gX<RET>".

Apparently, fixing this will break how "m<RET>" works, selecting the
first topic after or under point, as noted in the following comment in
the code for Info-menu in info.el:

  ;; we rely on the bug (which RMS won't change for his own reasons)
  ;; that ;; completing-read accepts an input of "" even when the
  ;; require-match argument is true and "" is not a valid possibility

David Stampe <stampe@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>