Re: [ELPA] New consult-denote package

[Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Date: Thu,  9 May 2024 08:20:50 +0000

> [... 18 lines elided]

>> The FIXME there is about the following use of the temp buffer to do a
>> completion-in-region in. Basically, I was looking for a function that
>> would complete a string against the list of candidates. What I have
>> there works, of course, but feels I am missing something.
>
> Isn't that the same as
>
>   (try-completion input new-collection)
>
> or am I missing something?

The 'try-completion' does not seem to read the 'completion-styles'. It
works if the input matches the prefix of the candidate, but otherwise it
returns nil.

Trying it with this:

    (defun denote--completion-table (category candidates)
      "Pass appropriate metadata CATEGORY to completion CANDIDATES."
      (lambda (string pred action)
        (if (eq action 'metadata)
            `(metadata (category . ,category))
          (complete-with-action action candidates string pred))))

    (setq completion-styles '(basic substring)) ; I also have `orderless' in my setup

    ;; This returns nil
    (try-completion
     "magritte"
     (denote--completion-table
      'file
      '("20220220T122457--magritte-pipe__attachment_painting_philosophy.jpg"
        "20231129T125442--note-with-a-title__denote_test.txt")))

    ;; This returns the candidate
    (try-completion
     "2022"
     (denote--completion-table
      'file
      '("20220220T122457--magritte-pipe__attachment_painting_philosophy.jpg"
        "20231129T125442--note-with-a-title__denote_test.txt")))

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