From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read return meta-information?
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:51:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbncvmu63.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861tdrwwhx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:46:50 -0500")
> It also achieves the goal of returning an absolute string from
> completing-read; that required advice on completing-read-default to call
> the new function completion-get-data-string.
Why can't you make completion-try-completion return an absolute filename
when there's only one match? That would eliminate the need for
those advices.
Stefan
PS: Also, as a user, I think I'd rather see names like "dir/file" than
"file<dir>".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-21 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 13:57 completing-read return meta-information? Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:06 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:45 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 18:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-18 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-21 16:46 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-09-22 15:21 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-26 10:54 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-27 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-28 5:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-28 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-28 16:13 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-28 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-28 5:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
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