From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion.
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:42:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gyhude2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d38aw8u1.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:35:02 +0100")
> Yes, and no. What I meant is that the underlying mechanisms are very
> different. 99.99% of the time the completion candidates are the same,
> but there are objects which are not meaningful to cache, like arguments
> of the user functions, or components of the recursive structures (lists,
> environments, data.frames etc.). In this cases AC also calls the
> process, and it's usually fast. But in some extreme corner cases, like
> if user changed a function in an attached package, AC will still use the
> cached version.'
So, IIUC it would be perfectly OK for TAB completion to use the AC code.
>> Hmm... more consistency in the naming might be good here, indeed.
>> It's important to keep the "<package>-" prefix since I don't want to
>> consider all of this as part of Emacs's "core", but maybe we could
>> settle on "<something>-completion-at-point-function" or maybe something
>> shorter than that.
> I am a fan of the -completion postfix convention. It's easy to match in
> apropos, anything or IDO regexp: comint-filename-completion,
> tags-completion, imenu-completion, imenu-in-same-mode-completion,
> words-in-same-buffer-commpletion etc. It can get pretty long by itself,
> so a short postfix is better.
But I suspect it will generate false positives because it's not
specific enough. Maybe "-completion-data"?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-18 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 11:05 Completion with (:exclusive 'no) is called twice, and doesn't pass over on sole completion Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-16 12:18 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-16 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-16 19:33 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-17 22:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-17 22:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-03-17 23:33 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-18 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-18 9:35 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-18 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-03-18 19:18 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-19 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-19 8:35 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-03-19 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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