From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Completion: display of candidates Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:26:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877edx8rbh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="262113"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 14:27:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gviws-001622-VF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gviwr-0007Vk-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:27:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gviwg-0007VP-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:26:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gviwg-0002No-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:26:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41508 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gviwf-0002Gm-Kq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:26:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gviwc-0015jk-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:26:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:hMNYYw3yvB5OgDInbMrJ3JspiO8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119438 Archived-At: > 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