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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 18265-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18265: 24.3.92; lisp-completion-at-point should return nil in comments, unless after `
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:49:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnqb8y75.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541BA95C.30400@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:56:12 +0400")

>> While it's "counter to the c-a-p-f interface", the need to combine
>> several backends is sufficiently common that we need to support it somehow.
>> I hope a "merge" solution can use a less hackish solution than the
>> current ":exclusive no".

> I'm not convinced with this approach. At least, AFAICS, different users
> prefer to merge different backends together. For instance, some
> https://github.com/iquiw/company-ghc users like to merge its results with
> the plain company-dabbrev-code. Some, I believe, don't.

> If the completion function gets to decide that, it would be harder for users
> to customize.

It might be textually a bit more verbose, but other than that it
shouldn't be harder.  I'm thinking of something like

  (add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions
            (completion-table-merge
             ghc-completion-table dabbrev-completion-table)
            nil t)


-- Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-19 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-14 12:11 bug#18265: 24.3.92; lisp-completion-at-point should return nil in comments, unless after ` Dmitry
2014-08-15  3:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-15  3:13   ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-15 12:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-16  1:02       ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-16 18:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-19  3:56           ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-09-19 14:49             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-09-19 17:45               ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-09-20  1:55                 ` Stefan Monnier

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