From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: merging results from completion-at-point-functions Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 13:22:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zgk4mbjp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <878rroylje.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r15flt0w.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87y1znyce2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87mtg1kygt.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35252"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:EpyKV7R+OgnZXdDQNy6v1dcw21U= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 19:25:31 2022 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 1nlDK7-00090L-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 01 May 2022 19:25:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nlDK6-0002g6-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 01 May 2022 13:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nlDJh-0002ft-JR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2022 13:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nlDJg-0002fY-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2022 13:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nlDJe-0008I1-4W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2022 19:25:02 +0200 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137108 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga [2022-05-01 17:29:54] wrote: > On Friday, 29 Apr 2022 at 16:52, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >>>> (setq-local completion-at-point-functions >>>> (list (cape-super-capf #'cape-dabbrev #'cape-dict #'cape-keyword))) >> >> Note that this sets up these CAPF functions only for the buffer that's >> current when the code is executed, so if you put it into your .emacs >> it's probably going to affect completions in *scratch* only. > > Yes, that's clear. Thank you. > > I am setting the variable in the right place to have > it set for the buffer I am writing in. But it just doesn't do anything > when I try to complete. > > To check, if I use > > (setq-local completion-at-point-functions (list #'cape-dabbrev)) > > instead of the expression above, that particular capf does get invoked. What happens if you go to the place where you want completion to take place and then do: M-: (funcall (cape-super-capf #'cape-dabbrev #'cape-dict #'cape-keyword)) RET [ It's not supposed to have any effect other than returning a value, so the question is what value does it return. ] Stefan