[Jed-users-l] completion problems

["R. Stewart Ellis" <ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to get jed to work as much as possible like jove.  In jove (and
Gnu EMACS) most (all?) commands and variables auto complete as you type them
in at the M-x prompt.  The command I use the most at M-x is apropos, which
in jove I enter as ^[xapr<SPC> and then I receive the apropos prompt.

In EMACS it ^[apr<SPC><CR> and then I get the prompt.  However, in jed I
have to type in the whole string apropos then <CR> before I receive the
apropos: prompt .

Another command (also from help.sl) that I would like to be able to enter
at M-x is showkey, ^[xshow<SPC> .  Another one is describe_command .

Is there any way to get these two and others like that to auto-complete?
Even better to complete without the <CR> at the end?

I know in the docs John or someone says that you cannot auto-complete
functions that are defined in modes.  Are these considered mode specific?

I thought maybe they were not completing because they were not loaded into
the interpreter yet, so following Guido's statement in section 8.4 of the
quickref, I did an autoload for showkey and apropos in .jedrc .

I have grepped the sl code as well as the .c sources, as well as all the
docs (I think) but am very rusty on C.  I had trouble understanding the
difference between internal and intrinsic functions.  Is the completion
behavior related to that?

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