Re: completing-read return meta-information?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> There is a desire to refactor this so that the only difference is inside
>> the completion table.
>
> I think the uniquification shouldn't be done in the completion table.
>
> All the fancy rewriting to make things shorter should be done in the
> completion-style, instead.  The style code can choose to return different
> kinds of results for completion-all-completions (which gets displayed
> in *Completions*, in Company, or in Icomplete-mode and where we should
> try and reduce redundancy) and for completion-try-completion.
>
> So completion-all-completions can return names like "foo<bar>" while
> completion-try-completion can return "~/src/file/foo/toto/bar.agda".

And I gather completing-read returns the result of
completion-try-completion.

Ok, I'll see if I can figure out how to implement completion style code.

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