[LISP] completion of partial buffer name

[LISP] completion of partial buffer name

[Cliff Heller]

I'm trying to use elisp to write a function that will switch to a buffer
of a certain type.

But I only have the beginning of the name availalble.

say for example: output1, output2, output3
but only one such buffer would exist at any time.

How can I do a non interactive completion on substring "output" to get
the full buffer name and switch to it? 

Thanks.

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Re: [LISP] completion of partial buffer name

[Alex Schroeder]

Cliff Heller <fnord@panix.com> writes:

> say for example: output1, output2, output3
> but only one such buffer would exist at any time.
>
> How can I do a non interactive completion on substring "output" to get
> the full buffer name and switch to it? 

(let ((completions (mapcar (lambda (buf)
			     (list (buffer-name buf)))
			   (buffer-list))))
  (try-completion "output" completions))
 
For me, for example:

(let ((completions (mapcar (lambda (buf)
			     (list (buffer-name buf)))
			   (buffer-list))))
  (try-completion "*scra" completions))

=> "*scratch*"

See the doc of try-completion for what happens if your prefix is
non-unique, or matches exactly, or not at all.  :)

Alex.

Re: [LISP] completion of partial buffer name

[Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:
> (let ((completions (mapcar (lambda (buf)
> 			     (list (buffer-name buf)))
> 			   (buffer-list))))
>   (try-completion "output" completions))

You can also use `all-completions' which will unsurprisingly
return the list of buffers that match.


        Stefan