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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> The documentation for completing-read mentions that TABLE can also be
> a function `that does the completion itself'.  Alas, I couldn't find
> any more info.

There's more info in the docstring of all-completions, try-completion,
and test-completion (you might not have this last one yet).
And there might also be more info in the elisp manual, of course.


        Stefan