Re: Completion: display of candidates

[Stefan Monnier]

> Right, and here comes the next problem: concretely I get my completions
> from `locate --basename <pattern>`.  So the user (me) might enter a
> wildcard pattern like "foo*bar.*".  But the completions/matches
> obviously have no * in it, so no completion matches the candidates.

That completely depends on the completion style.

For example `partial-completion` (which is included in the default
`completion-styles`) does accept * so you can do `M-x r*v*uf TAB` to
find revert-buffer.

> How to handle that?  Use the PREDICATE argument in completing-read so

The PREDICATE argument can only rule out matches, not add new ones.


        Stefan