On Tue, Apr 12 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Hmm... good point, doing it in completion-choices is not reliable, tho > using as completion table something like: > > (lambda (string pred action) > (let ((res (complete-with-action action completion-choices string pred))) > (if (and (eq action nil) > (assq (if (eq res t) string res) <expansion-alist>)) > (cdr (assq (if (eq res t) string res) <expansion-alist>)) > res))) > > should work OK for prefix completion, but that means using the expansion > "by hand" rather than via expand-abbrev, which may not be an option.
Yeah. That does not looks like a simple/good option. As it stands, I guess the bbdb solution to return a function doing the replacement rather than trying to return a list and conform with the (current) way of doing completion is really simpler, unfortunately. :( -- Julien Danjou ❱ http://julien.danjou.info
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