From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 22407@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22407: Better support external completion tools
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:49:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569F5812.8010507@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlh7l56le.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
On 01/20/2016 05:31 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I was thinking of applying (within Emacs) the regexp/predicate to a list
> of candidate returned by the external tool. Not passing it directly to
> the external tool
That would make it harder to use external tools that operate on large
datasets. And since essentially, with this approach we're not delegating
filtering to the external tool, it seems like it should work with the
current completion-styles mechanism. No need to allow overriding
completion-all-completions.
>> As an aside, I wonder if the current completion styles, at least, could each
>> be automatically implemented on top of the input-to-regexp functions,
>> without loss in efficiency.
>
> "input-to-regexp"? Sorry, doesn't ring a bell.
"a function which takes a user-input string and return a regexp".
Could we use that not just as "description", but as definition for
existing styles. And maybe keep the current mechanism for the trickier ones.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-19 14:19 bug#22407: Better support external completion tools Stefan Monnier
2016-01-20 1:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-20 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-20 9:49 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2016-01-20 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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