From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ecomplete.el (was: New Emacs facilities from Gnus) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zly3y4ru.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87odejy30k.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195342581 15628 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2007 23:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Reiner Steib Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 00:36:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ItXD2-00018L-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:36:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItXCp-0000WS-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItX8V-0007Gm-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItX8U-0007GN-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItX8U-0007G6-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItX8T-00084o-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItX8T-0007wd-DR; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:31:37 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Reiner Steib on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:29:19 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83491 Archived-At: > It sounds like something that could be generally useful. Does a > package have to be specially written to use this feature, or can it > apply to any and all minibuffer completion operations? In message mode, it's used for completion of To, Cc, ... headers, i.e. not in the minibuffer. What does a program have to do to provide this kind of completion? ecomplete.el doesn't say. In fact, its functions have no doc strings. > Anyway, it ought to be moved out of `lisp/gnus'. Could you move it into > the main `lisp' directory? I can do this next week, unless someone beats me to it. That is the right thing to do, presuming you or someone else supplies documentation for the package. There is no sense keeping it anywhere in Emacs if it has no documentation to explain how to use it.