From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: regexp completion (was: kill-ring visualization)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:00:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4ok33kuq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739zp80up.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:04:28 +0200")
>> PS: I do not know how to do regexp-style completion, to tell you the
>> truth. I.e. I know how to implement the all-completions part of it,
>> obviously, but I don't know how to then merge the matches into something
>> suitable for try-completion. I guess you could just apply
>> try-completion to the list of matches, but that would only lead to
>> something useful if the matches share some prefix.
> Currently a `*' in the completion string acts as the simplest regexp
> (wildcard), and it does its job pretty well. Couldn't this be extended
> to the true regular expressions?
It probably could, but I don't know *how*. But maybe it's because I'd
want it to do something more than what it can. I.e. maybe the "trivial"
answer is pretty much the only answer.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-18 6:18 kill-ring visualization joakim
2010-03-18 14:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-18 18:39 ` Leo
2010-03-18 19:37 ` joakim
2010-03-24 9:34 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-24 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 7:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-25 9:47 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-25 10:13 ` joakim
2010-03-25 10:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-25 13:56 ` anything.el inclusion (was: kill-ring visualization) Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-25 17:28 ` anything.el inclusion Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 6:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 7:01 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 7:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-29 18:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-29 19:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 5:44 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-03 14:17 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-03 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-26 17:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-27 19:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-27 21:35 ` Johan Busk Eriksson
2010-03-28 7:58 ` Yoni Rabkin
2010-03-28 17:39 ` joakim
2010-03-29 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-26 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-03-25 17:29 ` kill-ring visualization Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-26 7:09 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-26 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-27 19:42 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-27 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-30 16:07 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-30 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-31 15:04 ` Juri Linkov
2010-03-25 16:49 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-18 15:16 ` Drew Adams
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