From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation about the completion framework Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:49:43 -0800 Message-ID: <87k1ixx02w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <62c8a43a-16f4-cd86-da24-df3dcbe68537@grinta.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.org; posting-host="ciao.gmane.org:195.159.176.228"; logging-data="104723"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 20:55:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1glffp-000R9s-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:55:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1glffo-0000R5-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1glfZy-0005e6-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1glfZy-00015d-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.228] (port=48160 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1glfZx-00014X-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:49:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1glfZs-000Ksf-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:49:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:HiJcA54VdfoUSivtISOXUIOE2NI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.228 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232575 Archived-At: Daniele Nicolodi writes: > Hello, > > I'm implementing completion-at-point for an emacs mode. > > Unfortunately docstring of the relevant elisp functions are not always > detailed and in some cases not complete. I would also really appreciate > some documentation on how the framework can be used and how is it > supposed to be used, even better if there would be some hints on how to > keep it efficient. > > Does such documentation exist somewhere? Does anyone have any resource > to recommend? I'm partway through a blog post about exploring the internals of completion, but it won't be done for a little bit yet. I will try to remember to send you a link when it's done. :) Eric