Merge changes made in Gnus trunk.

gnus.texi (Gnus Utility Functions): Add more references and explanations (bug#9683).
ecomplete.el (ecomplete-display-matches): Use a local keymap to handle bindings.
gnus-win.el (gnus-configure-windows): Protect against reading ephemeral groups outside of Gnus.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
index 6af229bbdd..bb88eb7034 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-10-06  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <[email protected]>
+
+	* gnus.texi (Gnus Utility Functions): Add more references and
+	explanations (bug#9683).
+
 2011-09-21  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <[email protected]>
 
 	* gnus.texi (Archived Messages): Note the default (bug#9552).
diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index 211bfdb550..ad1d45cca1 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -29093,7 +29093,7 @@ Takes an unprefixed group name and a select method, and returns the full
 
 @item gnus-get-info
 @findex gnus-get-info
-Returns the group info list for @var{group}.
+Returns the group info list for @var{group} (@pxref{Group Info}).
 
 @item gnus-group-unread
 @findex gnus-group-unread
@@ -29102,7 +29102,8 @@ unknown.
 
 @item gnus-active
 @findex gnus-active
-The active entry for @var{group}.
+The active entry (i.e., a cons cell containing the lowest and highest
+article numbers) for @var{group}.
 
 @item gnus-set-active
 @findex gnus-set-active
@@ -29137,7 +29138,9 @@ Returns the select method corresponding to @var{server}.
 
 @item gnus-server-equal
 @findex gnus-server-equal
-Says whether two virtual servers are equal.
+Says whether two virtual servers are essentially equal.  For instance,
+two virtual servers may have server parameters in different order, but
+this function will consider them equal.
 
 @item gnus-group-native-p
 @findex gnus-group-native-p
@@ -29153,8 +29156,9 @@ Says whether @var{group} is foreign or not.
 
 @item gnus-group-find-parameter
 @findex gnus-group-find-parameter
-Returns the parameter list of @var{group}.  If given a second parameter,
-returns the value of that parameter for @var{group}.
+Returns the parameter list of @var{group} (@pxref{Group Parameters}).
+If given a second parameter, returns the value of that parameter for
+@var{group}.
 
 @item gnus-group-set-parameter
 @findex gnus-group-set-parameter