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Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass o
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion. |
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Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:34:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>> Not sure why, but not terribly problematic either.
> Right, unless the completion retrieval is computationally intensive.
That could be a problem, but I haven't seen a circumstance where this is
the case yet. This computation is only meant to decide which completion
table to use at a given buffer position. The exact set of candidates
can be computed later.
> Please see my other message with a more serious related issue.
> It might give some clues.
I do not see your other message. Is it on emacs-devel or a bug-report?
> In my case it's meaningful, as I retrieve completions from a
> process.
Then you should probably get your completions from the completion-table,
rather than from completion-at-point-functions.
IOW your completion-at-point-functions should return (without contacting
any process, other than maybe checking whether a process exists)
a completion table that's a function, e.g. built with
completion-table-dynamic, or using complete-with-action and it's *that*
function which contacts the process.
> Also I think, popup functions should use a different list (like
> completion-popup-functions).
That might be right (tho I hope it's not), but it doesn't eliminate the
fact that completion-at-point-functions might be called in
various circumstances.
> As users might want to use different sets of completions.
I expect completion-at-point-functions to be setup by major modes rather
than by users.
> Also popup completions *must* be considerably less computationally
> intensive, so it's probably a different set of functions anyhow.
The way I see it, completion-at-point-functions would instead include in
the `props' it returns, enough info to determine whether to use that
completion data for popup completion.
>>> Second problem is that if the completion is sole, the handling is not
>>> passed over.
>> That's expected: completion is only passed over if the text doesn't
>> match any candidate.
> IMHO, this is far form an ideal default. Take an example of two
> completions, one for symbols, another for functions. Or, even the
> etags completion which is always the last, and might give many more
> candidates with the same prefix.
You might be right. The current behavior of "fall over" for
non-exclusive completion data is not cast in stone and is known to
have limitations.
Stefan
- Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/16
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/16
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/16
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/17
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion.,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Lennart Borgman, 2012/03/17
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/17
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/17
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/18
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/18
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/18
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/18
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Vitalie Spinu, 2012/03/19
- Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion., Stefan Monnier, 2012/03/19