From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: raman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: minibuffer-completion-help, metadata and determining completions sort order Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:33:12 -0700 Message-ID: <87liwxpyrb.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308501225 15209 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2011 16:33:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:33:45 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 18:33:41 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYKwN-0007ZT-Va for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYKwM-0007Nz-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYKw4-0007NR-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:33:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYKw3-0003mS-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:47626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QYKw2-0003lw-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so3668824pzk.0 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:33:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:message-id:to:subject:from; bh=a4CbYikyswR0IZSFLRtI4Efbavus3IzncWgoFf1v5A0=; b=D94XUOY5bhVu6d7P/w0KfacW5sl9lIZAS8dz2gRrQBT/f6YN8st2BhxpUllTNleooj XuK3ZbOgaxIUAAmM58kSni1fugNPhv9ifEVpgr6UEmnOTihSVSQRW2ltMQ8nQucNZlrt Bu4Bl2Nw91eJaW8Anw4w7Xt6l/x/EtqbZjzTI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:message-id:to:subject:from; b=Ci5xbWwy7CidE8PDHuIzNm4zwZzlTrklKNpj5CMCk0aVX2qWTCwK6nu2LQTS/T3p6Y zc1ekFRFfq6GcwuSkmTSGztH1HIWuS6+wE+vKHwgHKqRRmqoZBbVr16mxVUiUZBJYB3Q PB6/WptSBCjk88Xl0Lhk9vLbR6JsnYB/9Lev0= Original-Received: by 10.68.56.132 with SMTP id a4mr1770600pbq.89.1308501197449; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from labrador.emacspeak.org (c-71-202-188-217.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.202.188.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g8sm428203pba.5.2011.06.19.09.33.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:33:16 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140680 Archived-At: Stefan, So the metadata gets placed as a property on the table? Also I said the list would get traversed even if the sort function was identity because the code does a funcall of the sort function provided, but perhaps that's not a big issue. Some examples on providing metadata would really help -- I've never fully understood the completions code -- especially with respect to the table and mode arguments. -- Best Regards, --raman -- Best Regards, --raman