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>>>>> "Julien" == Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

    Julien> On Mon, Oct 04 2010, Lawrence Mitchell wrote:
    >> That is almost certainly the wrong fix, since it now breaks if
    >> collection is a hash-table or a function.

    Julien> Collection is always a list.

In nnir.el collection is an alist. This fix for old Xemacsen breaks nnir
search querying.

I guess we could do one of

1. revert nnir.el to use completing-read.
2. add a test in gnus-emacs-completing-read to see if collection is an
alist.

Regards,
Andy