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: Is intellisense features integration in Emacs technically possible? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:20:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1390269670.2888.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <83zjmpf80o.fsf@gnu.org> <877g9shqms.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <20140122194930.49ba60be@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> <87fvoedebx.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <20140123215656.30bf63b8@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> <20140123234321.26085e40@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> <20140124112520.7920a8cc@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390569663 30479 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 13:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jorgen Schaefer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 14:21:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6gh2-0005nT-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:21:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6gh1-0000Rw-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6ggs-0000Qc-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:21:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6ggl-0002Mp-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:62090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6ggl-0002Ml-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:20:51 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+Jkg/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFHO+Jkg/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDiGGcGYFegxU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="45981266" Original-Received: from 206-248-153-32.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.153.32]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 24 Jan 2014 08:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7BDB76026C; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:20:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20140124112520.7920a8cc@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> (Jorgen Schaefer's message of "Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:25:20 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:169007 Archived-At: > continuation". There does not seem to be a need to return a function > which is called to run another function? Just letting the Emacs code > know that we might add completions later and then calling some > well-known function with additional completions once they are available > would be sufficient I think? It's the same, except that the "well-known" won't be a function name but the function you receive as argument, which makes it possible for it to be a closure that holds various side-info which can change over time. Stefan