From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kill-ring visualization Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:04:28 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8739zp80up.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87y6hib6vi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269501932 14004 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2010 07:25:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 08:25:28 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuhRX-00057X-Ld for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:25:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuhRW-0004Dz-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuhRQ-0004DR-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32797 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuhRO-0004DE-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuhRK-0003di-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:56658 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuhRJ-0003dM-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:25:14 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.30.101.cable.starman.ee [82.131.30.101]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E0C3F40B0; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:25:07 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:54:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122637 Archived-At: > PS: I do not know how to do regexp-style completion, to tell you the > truth. I.e. I know how to implement the all-completions part of it, > obviously, but I don't know how to then merge the matches into something > suitable for try-completion. I guess you could just apply > try-completion to the list of matches, but that would only lead to > something useful if the matches share some prefix. Currently a `*' in the completion string acts as the simplest regexp (wildcard), and it does its job pretty well. Couldn't this be extended to the true regular expressions? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/