bug#52839: 29.0.50; The '(declare (modes MODE...))' NEWS entry is confusing

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > The latter.  We then added the "M-X" binding for the new command that
>> > always omits inapplicable commands from the completion, so now users
>> > can have the cake and eat it, too.
>> 
>> That's not what `M-X' does, though -- it filters out commands that
>> aren't particularly marked for the current mode, but there's always
>> other commands that will be useful.
>
> How is that different from what I said?

There's many commands that are applicable in any given mode that will
not be listed by `M-X'.  (I.e., all commands that are generally useful
across modes.)

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