From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: minibuffer-completion-help: make sorting of completions customizable? Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:07:19 -0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306811250 14572 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2011 03:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 03:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 05:07:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIk-00011j-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIk-00088t-8n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIh-00088h-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIg-0007wF-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIg-0007wB-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:60942 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRFIg-00031L-0l; Mon, 30 May 2011 23:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7B32966391; Tue, 31 May 2011 00:07:19 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:47:10 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139924 Archived-At: >>> As implemented, minibuffer-completion-help *always* sorts the >>> completion list using string-lessp. This works most of the time, >>> except when the caller has already >>> set up the completions to reflect a desired order. Could the >>> implementation be updated to provide a setting that could be let >>> bound by the caller? The completion-table can now provide its own sorting function, via the `display-sort-function' metadata. Stefan