From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion: display of candidates
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:26:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1s45i62l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877edx8rbh.fsf@gnu.org
> 1. The docs for completion-table-dynamic say that the given function
> should return an alist
That's an error: the return value should be a completion table.
> 2. Is there a way to display and complete on a different representation
> than the actual completion candidates? In my case, my-func returns
> absolute file names but I'd like to complete on just the basename,
> and display the entries in the form of "basename (directory)".
You can modify `my-func` to return file names in the form
"basename (directory)", no?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-18 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-18 7:54 Completion: display of candidates Tassilo Horn
2019-02-18 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-02-18 14:55 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-18 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-18 19:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-18 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-19 7:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2019-02-19 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <87imxe1pfs.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-02-20 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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