From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Getting further information from describe-function
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:11:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oceuhngt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinA9CUVUN8FVyiP9qxKQgfcJUYKpX9ufQCHFrnf@mail.gmail.com> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:32:20 +0200")
> I would like to write a little function which acts like the
> completing-read of describe-function but the completion buffer should
> use customizable faces which indicate whether what is completed to are
> obsolote, macros, etc. One could even imagine using customizable
> format strings for the output, possibly to be able to indicate e.g.
> where the functions are defined. describe-function in its current
> state is rather "dumb", simply using completing-read over obarray on
> symbols that "are fboundp".
>
> So to write this feature I had in mind...where do I start?
It seems what you want is completions-annotations.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-28 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-28 20:32 Getting further information from describe-function Deniz Dogan
2010-06-28 21:11 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2010-06-28 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-06-28 21:11 ` Drew Adams
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