From: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Collecting completion candidates from multiple files
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:19:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11r1cmtjq.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5330eba5-a863-3061-250b-850a46c042fd@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:48:16 +0100")
Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> is there a standard facility and/or user interface to collect
> completion candidates from multiple files composing a project?
>
> I'm developing a mode for a language that has an "include" facility
> and I would like to support collecting completion candidates from the
> definitions contained in all the files that compose a project,
> independently of whether the current buffer has an explicit "include"
> directive or not.
The standard facility provided by Emacs is based on the hook
completion-at-point-functions, that each major mode can customize to
provide appropriate completion on the text in Emacs buffers.
Eval the following form in Emacs to read more about the completion API:
(info "(elisp) Completion in Buffers")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-12 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-12 20:48 Collecting completion candidates from multiple files Daniele Nicolodi
2022-01-12 23:19 ` Daniel Martín [this message]
2022-01-13 8:53 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2022-01-13 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-13 14:47 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-13 15:14 ` Daniel Martín
2022-01-13 15:32 ` xenodasein--- via Emacs development discussions.
2022-01-13 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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