From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improve gud-gdb completion Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:31:56 -0700 Message-ID: <86fsvwofwz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <86r1fi4jd3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87czr2wl03.fsf@md5i.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31734"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt) Cc: emacs-devel To: Michael Welsh Duggan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 30 01:32:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FWC-00084Q-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:32:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FWA-0005ya-JO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FVT-0005EY-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from gateway22.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.46.194]:32351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FVS-0000n2-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from cm12.websitewelcome.com (cm12.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.8]) by gateway22.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C361D3967 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:32:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from host2007.hostmonster.com ([67.20.76.71]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id 9FVQmiQCFBvjy9FVQmuzwE; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:32:00 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=stephe-leake.org; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=Wg34P1qmmktiT2tMgrl/3JWdTZAM8ppMIKZNMJjEC2Q=; b=l9I0aNubNLB1R8oZ15pTu7MDTL DwtiWd6sl6hfyBmx9QzRLPhfQ/8D8JXzkdiewJwYXXkZOjwrYVv4lZBRQbTZrAePSszosTh3264Sd YZ0016Y65aXJV+CsL92mxvTDytKgOFrUp05luia8FY3WsL7/cfZ9MEEj1de5VFVDfus0k2vwQgaC6 9JZM6Ai+YtiuUmpX7gP83LiUS53yP59VMJiGdTDLyGOstmvhF7Cbe371XC352bUdM9DStREXGNVQ6 9oQXshveCUVZCnu6CbnJf7LY2Ss8WXPe95/cwaljcTX3EuNmc6kw/obuzPGDHHnKjX64x7Iuyc51c TPK73IVw==; Original-Received: from [76.77.182.20] (port=50682 helo=Takver4) by host2007.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1m9FVQ-000FRw-1h; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:32:00 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87czr2wl03.fsf@md5i.com> (Michael Welsh Duggan's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:50:20 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host2007.hostmonster.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - stephe-leake.org X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 76.77.182.20 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1m9FVQ-000FRw-1h X-Source-Sender: (Takver4) [76.77.182.20]:50682 X-Source-Auth: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org X-Email-Count: 21 X-Source-Cap: c3RlcGhlbGU7c3RlcGhlbGU7aG9zdDIwMDcuaG9zdG1vbnN0ZXIuY29t X-Local-Domain: yes Received-SPF: permerror client-ip=192.185.46.194; envelope-from=stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org; helo=gateway22.websitewelcome.com X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.779 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271810 Archived-At: Michael Welsh Duggan writes: > Stephen Leake writes: > >> I'd like to improve completion in gud-gdb. >> >> Currently, it completes on names in the buffer being debugged, but it >> doesn't include "." in the name, so if I'm trying to print >> "Incremental_Parser.Parse_Errors.Length", it only completes to >> "Incremental_Parser". >> >> However, I can't figure out exactly what elisp code is harvesting names >> from the buffer. >> >> TAB is bound to completion-at-point. >> >> completion-at-point-functions is >> (gud-gdb-completion-at-point comint-completion-at-point t) >> >> (default-value 'completion-at-point-functions) is >> (tags-completion-at-point-function) >> >> None of those completion functions look at the text in buffers. >> >> What am I missing? > > Are you certain that it looks at the text in buffers at all? If you > look at gud-gdb-completions, you'll see that it uses gdb's completion > mechanism based on symbols in the binary. It finds names from my code; "Incremental_Parser" above. I found a workaround by replacing the completion with hippie-expand, but I'd still like to understand how the original configuration works. -- -- Stephe