command completion bug

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From: Steve Tynor
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 20:08

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Version:  Emacs 18.55
Machines: Sun4, Sun386i, Sequent Symmetry, Convex

Perhaps this is just a philosophical bug (i.e. maybe it's a feature, not a
bug):

"M-x tex<SPACE>" expands to "tex-" implying that there are no commands that
start with "tex" not followed by a hyphen. In fact, there are several:

	tex-mode			   texinfo-format-buffer
	texinfo-format-region		   texinfo-mode
	text-mode

Are hyphens treated specially in the completion code? Why? Shouldn't the
completor have offered a completion list (as it does if I type
"M-x texi<SPACE><SPACE>" ???

I'm so confused.

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Progress means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong.
                     
    Steve Tynor
    Georgia Tech Research Institute
    Artificial Intelligence Branch
    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

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From: tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
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