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Re: Documentation about the completion framework
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Daniele Nicolodi |
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Re: Documentation about the completion framework |
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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:53:06 -0700 |
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On 21/01/2019 20:37, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Trying to understand this code: how is this different from computing
>> candidates directly in my-completion-at-point-function and passing it down?
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> The completion function is not always called.
> The completion-in-region-mode for example just calls
> completion-at-point-function after each command (without looking up the
> completion-table) just to see if we're still within the same field.
I see. Unfortunately I didn't find any documentation of this mechanism.
Did I overlook it, or should I think about submitting a patch improving
the docstrings?
Thansk!
Cheers,
Dan