From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does M-x completion works Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4b82ff9b$0$279$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4B83F1AD.3000604@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266983174 7605 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2010 03:46:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:46:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 04:46:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8CO-00008w-NQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:46:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8CO-00007l-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:46:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8BS-0008IP-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60222 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk8BO-0008Gr-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8BM-0005Bx-MS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8BM-0005Bj-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk8BL-00086S-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:45:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4B83F1AD.3000604@easy-emacs.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72084 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler wrote: > Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote: > > May be I did not choose the good words. I was not talking about CTags, I was > > talking about what you get when you do "M-x [TAB]". I call it "completion", > > but may be this is not the good word. Completion is the correct term. > Than it's pretty probable it consults the tags-table. You have delete it from there. No. Compare the Completion node of the Emacs manual with the Tags node: | Some arguments allow "completion" to enter their value. This means | that after you type part of the argument, Emacs can fill in the rest, | or some of it, based on what you have typed so far. | ... | For example, `M-x' uses the minibuffer to read the name of a | command, so it provides a list of all Emacs command names for | completion candidates. | A "tags table" is a description of how a multi-file program is broken | up into files. It lists the names of the component files and the names | and positions of the functions (or other named subunits) in each file. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA