From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:36:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20131231155235.GA9294@c3po> <878uuxhs5s.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388777835 32571 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 19:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Toby Cubitt , Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Toby Cubitt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 20:37:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAYY-0004uQ-N6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:37:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51506 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAYY-00061t-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAYO-00061d-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:37:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAYF-0005sC-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:48028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzAYF-0005s8-Q5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:36:59 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALDiYSFBgNJIgkwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="43876728" Original-Received: from 184-175-11-38.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.11.38]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 03 Jan 2014 14:36:59 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CB07860133; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 14:36:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <878uuxhs5s.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:49:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167211 Archived-At: > - the backend data should be able to carry more than plain strings, > things like docstrings and such, and IMO we should try to standardize > the possible extras at least somewhat. We may need a deeper backend > abstraction than `completion-at-point-functions' because of this. completion-at-point-functions can already provide docstrings (which are then used by Company), see lisp-completion-at-point for an example. Stefan