From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 5)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 20:59:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wns5w3qw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <717189f4-cf65-8a07-fbcf-678242312530@daniel-mendler.de> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Tue, 11 May 2021 09:51:45 +0200")
> 1. By doing such an override the ability of the user to configure the
> completion UI is subverted.
Such an override could be advisable only when the API user provides
an equivalent user option with more choices when necessary.
> 2. Since the variables are let-bound, they influence the behavior of
> nested recursive completion sessions. It is better to override the
> variables with `setq-local` in a `minibuffer-setup-hook`.
Agreed.
> +(defcustom completions-group-sort-function #'identity
> + "Sorting function for the groups.
> +The function takes and returns an alist of groups, where the each
> +element is a pair of a group title string and the candidate strings
> +belonging to the group."
> + :type 'function
> + :version "28.1")
As the most useful non-default choice, it could also include a function
to sort alphabetically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-25 13:32 [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 19:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 19:47 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 22:10 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 22:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-25 22:58 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-26 4:51 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-04-27 16:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-28 6:18 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-04-25 23:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-26 10:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-26 13:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-27 1:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-27 1:59 ` tumashu
2021-04-27 2:45 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-27 15:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-27 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-28 0:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-28 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-25 19:38 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH) Daniel Mendler
2021-04-25 20:45 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-25 21:26 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 16:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-29 16:52 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29 17:13 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-29 23:55 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 2) Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 9:00 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 17:01 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-30 18:11 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 18:30 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-01 19:57 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-02 0:43 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-02 11:01 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-30 16:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-04-30 18:13 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-01 19:54 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-02 0:32 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 21:38 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-07 17:03 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-07 17:55 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 6:24 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 8:45 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 4) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-08 9:10 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-09 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-09 18:50 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-09 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-09 19:11 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-10 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-11 7:51 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 5) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 17:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-05-08 13:15 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 2) Stefan Monnier
2021-05-09 18:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-09 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 18:06 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-11 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 18:58 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 19:46 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-11 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 20:30 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 6) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-13 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-13 11:45 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 7) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-20 9:39 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-20 17:53 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-20 18:51 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:09 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH) Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 17:16 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-04-29 17:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 18:31 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-29 20:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-29 22:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-04-29 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2021-04-29 19:21 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 14:29 ` [PATCH] `completing-read`: Add `group-function` support to completion metadata (REVISED PATCH VERSION 3) Daniel Mendler
2021-05-02 21:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-03 14:40 ` Daniel Mendler
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