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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 48572@debbugs.gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com
Subject: bug#48572: 28.0.50; Add `passthrough` completion style to minibuffer.el
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 09:03:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbl8sz88v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b242520-323b-366d-39b5-cb759f346cfb@daniel-mendler.de> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Sun, 30 May 2021 05:23:05 +0200")

> Sorry, I don't get it. What is the difference in calling the backend
> between the two cases:
>
> (1) passthrough-all-completions -> all-completions -> backend
>
> versus
>
> (2) passthrough-all-completions -> backend?

In case 2 you get to choose the arguments passed to the backend function.

> In case (2) you call the backend directly but then you also have to
> handle completion tables which are not functions and you end up

`passthrough` doesn't make any sense for non-function backends.

> Yes, I am aware that `all-completions` is the backend API. Is anything
> lost when going through `all-completions`?

The possibility to return completion candidates that aren't "prefix
completions" (which is the whole purpose of `passthrough`)?


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-30 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21 18:48 bug#48572: 28.0.50; Add `passthrough` completion style to minibuffer.el Daniel Mendler
2021-05-22 23:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-23 10:21   ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-23 10:36     ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-23 15:50     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-23 17:33       ` João Távora
2021-05-23 19:58       ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-26 21:28         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-05-30  3:23           ` Daniel Mendler
2021-05-30 13:03             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2021-05-23  1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov

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