From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion: display of candidates
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:48:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7edwesgm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877edwsxw1.fsf@gnu.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2019 20:24:30 +0100")
> Right, and here comes the next problem: concretely I get my completions
> from `locate --basename <pattern>`. So the user (me) might enter a
> wildcard pattern like "foo*bar.*". But the completions/matches
> obviously have no * in it, so no completion matches the candidates.
That completely depends on the completion style.
For example `partial-completion` (which is included in the default
`completion-styles`) does accept * so you can do `M-x r*v*uf TAB` to
find revert-buffer.
> How to handle that? Use the PREDICATE argument in completing-read so
The PREDICATE argument can only rule out matches, not add new ones.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-18 20:48 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
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 [this message]
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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