From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minibuffer-completion-help: make sorting of completions customizable?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:07:19 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62orvaat.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimO8Lehg61UfjuRwB7eTsMcU9NsttJD=amdcVuW@mail.gmail.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:47:10 -0800")
>>> As implemented, minibuffer-completion-help *always* sorts the
>>> completion list using string-lessp. This works most of the time,
>>> except when the caller has already
>>> set up the completions to reflect a desired order. Could the
>>> implementation be updated to provide a setting that could be let
>>> bound by the caller?
The completion-table can now provide its own sorting function, via the
`display-sort-function' metadata.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 19:46 minibuffer-completion-help: make sorting of completions customizable? T.V. Raman
2011-01-25 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:47 ` T.V. Raman
2011-05-31 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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