From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Madhu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: dynamic-completion-mode doc Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:10:14 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26451"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8oUkkH+n3f+6xk3tOFnnKZmIjNs= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 07 06:57:00 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qe74c-0006gT-Hk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:56:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qe74A-0001NB-VF; Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:56:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qe6oV-0003YU-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qe6oS-0003pU-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qe6oQ-00070n-38 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2023 06:40:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:56:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310231 Archived-At: [written up for gnu-emacs-help but posted here on second thoughts] I'm trying to find out what (dynamic-completion-mode) does. C-h f dynamic-completion-mode C-h v dynamic-completion-mode Only show the boilerplate documentation. But I cannot understand what the impact of the command is, or what changes when minor-mode dynamic-completion-mode is turned on or off. [I've used what is called "dynamic completions" before: 1. use M-/ dabbrev-exapand to complete the word at point 2. Use completion-table-dynamic to support completion-at-point for lisp modes like sly or slime 3. I used comint-dynamic-complete-as-filename for a long time until its functionality was handicapped and then obsoleted then removed, and I've had to locally revert the changes to "comint-filename-completion" "comint-dynamic-complete-filename" to get the functionality back. This makes me think I've misunderstood what "dynamic completion" means, so perhaps I should start with what dynamic-completion-mode is supposed to do.