Re: Collecting completion candidates from multiple files

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 13/01/2022 00:19, Daniel Martín wrote:
> Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there a standard facility and/or user interface to collect
>> completion candidates from multiple files composing a project?
>>
>> I'm developing a mode for a language that has an "include" facility
>> and I would like to support collecting completion candidates from the
>> definitions contained in all the files that compose a project,
>> independently of whether the current buffer has an explicit "include"
>> directive or not.
> 
> The standard facility provided by Emacs is based on the hook
> completion-at-point-functions, that each major mode can customize to
> provide appropriate completion on the text in Emacs buffers.

Hello Martin,

thank you for your response, I know how to implement completion. What 
I'm inquiring about is how to implement the collection of completion 
candidates from multiple buffers. I can implement this in my mode, 
however I'm wondering if Emacs already has a facility for this kind of 
things.

Cheers,
Dan