From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to configure word separator for partial completion style?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:43:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttymn0g3.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m24jqmbtmb.fsf@milanglacier.com
Milan Glacier <news@milanglacier.com> writes:
> The emacs documentation
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Completion-Styles.html)
> suggests that "partial-completion" uses hyphens or spaces as word
> separator. Is there a way to use other characters as the word separator?
`completion-pcm-word-delimiters'?
> This is very useful for other languages (say python, C) which usually
> uses underscore as the word separator. Say I want to complete `foo_bar`,
> then I may just type `f_m` to complete `foo_bar`.
Hmm - the underscore is already in that delimiters list, so what you
want should work out of the box, unless I'm missing something. In Elisp
it works for me, I can e.g. complete (epg-K_CR) to
(epg--status-KEY_CREATED).
Michael.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-15 3:02 Is there a way to configure word separator for partial completion style? Milan Glacier
2023-03-15 3:43 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-03-15 5:20 ` Milan Glacier
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