From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to configure word separator for partial completion style? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:43:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87ttymn0g3.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9233"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9QmEYTn4f6cJl1Y8+LvF9NMFXN8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 04:44:39 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pcI47-0002E0-7z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:44:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pcI3d-00073O-HL; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pcI3b-00073E-OU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pcI3a-0000o5-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pcI3X-0001Ot-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2023 04:44:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143022 Archived-At: Milan Glacier 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.