Re: MINI-PATCH: add how to turn auto-completion in test buffers off

[tomas]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 04:07:12PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:45:15 +0200
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > Maybe the attached patch to the doc can help other people and show why I 
> > was confused. It's the first time I
> > have to disable a feature globally to then activate it for specific modes.
> > 
> > To a possible question about the motivation:
> > 
> > I use .txt for quick scribbles, logs etc. where completion-at-point stands 
> > in the way of productivity, but I might
> > give it a try in.. say.. org-mode.
> 
> Does what you suggest for the manual really work?  Calling setopt in
> this case modified the keymap of text-mode, and that has a global
> effect.
> 
> I really don't think buffer-local tricks like this one belong to the
> Emacs user manual.  Users who have such a need will have to read the
> code and figure this out for themselves.  The purpose of documenting
> this in the user manual is to make the feature discoverable; once
> discovered, tweaking it should be easy, and doesn't need to be
> described in the user manual.

But how do you propose the OP solves their problem at hand?

Asking because that'll likely become my problem on next version
upgrade.

Cheers & thanks
-- 
tomás

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