From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5139: 23.1.50; feature request: completion-buffer-sort-function Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:58:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87r23w4inf.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87r5r779kv.fsf@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="167757"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 5139@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 16:59:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcO-000hWG-7M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:59:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43028 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcM-0002Pw-FI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcF-0002Ny-Vb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcE-0001gd-UU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcE-0001gV-Rm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJcE-0001Iv-Hp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:59:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:59:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 5139 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 5139-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5139.15699419154962 (code B ref 5139); Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:59:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5139) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Oct 2019 14:58:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34315 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJbm-0001Hx-QY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:52942) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJbk-0001Hp-M2 for 5139@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFJbg-0004Iv-VK; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:58:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87r5r779kv.fsf@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:21:36 -0600") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168018 Archived-At: "Roland Winkler" writes: > When a *Completions* buffer is generated by minibuffer-completion-help > it will sort the possible completions using string-lessp. It would be > nice if the sorting order was not hard-coded but could be modified > according to context. That's why I want to suggest to replace the > call of string-lessp by something like > > (funcall completion-buffer-sort-function) > > so that completion-buffer-sort-function can be bound by the caller > to something else according to context. I think what the various packages that do completion (ido, helm, company, etc) do is replace the entire completion function, which seems more flexible. And making all those respect such a variable I thing would be difficult. So I'm closing this as a "wontfix". -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no