From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completion discrepancy between default completion and helm/ivy completions
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:38:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7f87e6j4.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2twbb1qez.fsf@polytechnique.org
> Is it correct to register as a completion something that returns a
> string?
I don't understand the question: register where? return a string in
which case?
> Because it is what org-contacts does, but although it works with
> the default completion code, it breaks ivy or helm style completions.
AFAIK those frameworks probably don't handle well completion tables
which use completion-boundaries, so I'd lean towards saying it's a bug
or a known limitation of those frameworks. But I haven't looked at them
in a long while, so maybe this isn't true any more.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-13 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-10 11:22 completion discrepancy between default completion and helm/ivy completions Alan Schmitt
2016-11-10 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-11-13 13:05 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-11-13 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-11-14 13:22 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-11-14 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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