From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: display-completion-list Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:28:17 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3ED786A1.2020501@yahoo.com> References: <84wug84lic.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054312109 26551 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 16:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 18:28:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Lmjz-0006ty-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:28:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Lmm1-00025X-Ow for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:30:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054312087 7107732 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113895 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10387 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10387 Kai Großjohann wrote: > Roland Winkler writes: > > >>Suppose I have the function >> >>(defun foo () >> (interactive) >> (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*" >> (display-completion-list '("a" "b" "d")))) >> >>This will open a completion buffer. If I select a completion in this >>buffer by clicking on a completion, the selection will be >>inserted in the active buffer at the position of point. How does the >>insertion happen in detail? >> > > I don't know. Here is how I find out: > > I run the code. I position point on one of the completions and do > C-h k RET. It tells me that it runs the command choose-completions. > I have a wild hunch that there might be a variable with a similar > name, so I type C-h v choos TAB... Bingo! In Emacs 21.3 I get Describe variable: choos [No match] But there's always (defadvice choose-completion (after ...) ...) -- Kevin Rodgers