From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Hagelberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes to completing-read Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:28:16 -0700 Message-ID: <87vdvnoppb.fsf@hagelb.org> References: <87myh1dx46.fsf@hagelb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224509592 8985 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 13:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 15:34:01 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1KrmOa-00089G-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrmNV-00012y-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrmNQ-00012j-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrmNP-00011h-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60834 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrmNP-00011e-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.145]:35367 helo=spunkymail-a12.g.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrmNP-0002Os-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from dynabook (96-26-232-193.sea.clearwire-dns.net [96.26.232.193]) by spunkymail-a12.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9D78EE11; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:28:16 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:104662 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > The `lambda' is when the function is called by `test-completion'. > The `boundaries' is a new functionality, still undocumented. Thanks. I guess this will be documented before the release? Could someone explain the meaning of `boundaries' please? >> It's rather unclear from the docstrings, but from what I can piece >> together, the "collection" function should act totally differently based >> on the value of the third argument. > > That's right. A better way to think of it might be that the "function" > is an object (in the OO sense), and the last arg is the method to > be executed. That sounds reasonable. If that way of explaining it could be used in the documentation I think it could be very helpful. -Phil