From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How does M-x completion works
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hm27bl$785$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B83F1AD.3000604@easy-emacs.de>
Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> > May be I did not choose the good words. I was not talking about CTags, I
was > > talking about what you get when you do "M-x [TAB]". I call it
"completion", > > but may be this is not the good word.
Completion is the correct term.
> Than it's pretty probable it consults the tags-table. You have delete it from there.
No. Compare the Completion node of the Emacs manual with the Tags node:
| Some arguments allow "completion" to enter their value. This means
| that after you type part of the argument, Emacs can fill in the rest,
| or some of it, based on what you have typed so far.
| ...
| For example, `M-x' uses the minibuffer to read the name of a
| command, so it provides a list of all Emacs command names for
| completion candidates.
| A "tags table" is a description of how a multi-file program is broken
| up into files. It lists the names of the component files and the names
| and positions of the functions (or other named subunits) in each file.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-24 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 12:35 How does M-x completion works Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-22 16:34 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <4B82A7A4.6050005@easy-emacs.de>
[not found] ` <op.u8jfv6nuesn74s@garhos>
2010-02-22 17:42 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-02-22 22:06 ` Colin S. Miller
2010-02-23 7:06 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-23 8:36 ` Barry Margolin
2010-02-23 9:25 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-23 10:03 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.1694.1266919287.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-23 13:47 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-23 15:18 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-02-24 3:44 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2010-02-26 13:12 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.1758.1266983111.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:58 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
[not found] ` <mailman.1706.1266938167.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-23 17:17 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-23 19:32 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.1728.1266953431.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-23 21:24 ` Tim X
2010-02-24 4:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-02-24 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-24 4:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
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