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Re: Generalizing find-definition
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Stephen Leake |
Subject: |
Re: Generalizing find-definition |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:58:09 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> What is the advantage of having the backend define a function that
>> returns a completion table as opposed to a function that prompts the
>> user for a symbol? The saved code seems minimal, and it means the
>> backend can not set the prompt, for example.
>
> Another reason is the general rule that the backend should not do
> UI tasks and prompting is definitely a UI operation.
+1
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-- Stephe
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, (continued)
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/03
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/11/06
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stephen Leake, 2014/11/06
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Yuri Khan, 2014/11/06
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/11/07
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/03
- Re: Generalizing find-definition,
Stephen Leake <=
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/11/03
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Yuri Khan, 2014/11/03
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/11/04
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Dmitry Gutov, 2014/11/06
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/06
- Re: Generalizing find-definition, Helmut Eller, 2014/11/06
- Multiple next-error sources, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/11/06
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- Re: Multiple next-error sources, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/11/07