Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> With these two modifications, it runs fine (that is, using the old calling > convention and just using (setq-default completion-at-point-functions > '(my-dabbrev-expand))) Thanks, installed, Stefan

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-26 Thread Antoine Levitt
26/05/11 04:23, Stefan Monnier >>> Another is to do it more selectively, flag some of >>> completion-at-point-functions as "not-exclusive", meaning that if >>> completion fails with those we should keep trying with subsequent >>> functions. E.g. the nick completion in rcirc could be flagged as >>>

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Another is to do it more selectively, flag some of >> completion-at-point-functions as "not-exclusive", meaning that if >> completion fails with those we should keep trying with subsequent >> functions. E.g. the nick completion in rcirc could be flagged as >> non-exclusive since it applies ever

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Antoine Levitt
24/05/11 20:05, Stefan Monnier >> Oh well, I guess that I'm the only one who wants this kind of behaviour, >> so I just ended up with an advice which seems to do the trick. Sorry for >> hijacking this thread. In case anyone is interested: > > To get back to this discussion. Before worrying about

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Oh well, I guess that I'm the only one who wants this kind of behaviour, > so I just ended up with an advice which seems to do the trick. Sorry for > hijacking this thread. In case anyone is interested: To get back to this discussion. Before worrying about how to implement it, I'm wondering w

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Antoine Levitt
24/05/11 16:05, Stefan Monnier >> (defadvice completion-at-point >> (after completion-at-point-complete-if-failed activate) >> "Fallback on dabbrev if completion didn't do anything useful." >> (unless ad-return-value >> (dabbrev-expand nil))) > > BTW, you can avoid the advice by using

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> (defadvice completion-at-point > (after completion-at-point-complete-if-failed activate) > "Fallback on dabbrev if completion didn't do anything useful." > (unless ad-return-value > (dabbrev-expand nil))) BTW, you can avoid the advice by using your own (defun al-completion-at-po

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Oh well, I guess that I'm the only one who wants this kind of behaviour, No, I'm interested as well, but haven't found a good solution yet. Stefan

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Antoine Levitt
24/05/11 14:47, Stefan Monnier >> So, could you add 'failed, which means that no function was able to >> complete? That way I could do something like > >> (setq completion-extra-properties '(:exit-function my-exit-function)) > >> (defun my-exit-function (string finished) >> (when (eq finished 'fa

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So, could you add 'failed, which means that no function was able to > complete? That way I could do something like > (setq completion-extra-properties '(:exit-function my-exit-function)) > (defun my-exit-function (string finished) > (when (eq finished 'failed) > (dabbrev-expand))) > and

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-24 Thread Julien Danjou
On Tue, May 24 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I've now added a :exit-function property that > completion-at-point-functions can return which is a function that gets > called when completion is finished. It operates outside of the > completion-table, so has access to the buffer text and can do thin

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> > So at least cycling-completion seems fundamentally incompatible with > > this idea of abbrev-expansion-after-completion, at least if you want to > > allow arbitrarily complex abbrevs like skeletons. > Indeed, this is a real problem. I've now added a :exit-function property that completion-at-p

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-04 Thread Julien Danjou
On Wed, May 04 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: > So at least cycling-completion seems fundamentally incompatible with > this idea of abbrev-expansion-after-completion, at least if you want to > allow arbitrarily complex abbrevs like skeletons. Indeed, this is a real problem. > Could you give me an i

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> 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) ))

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-05-03 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sun, Mar 27 2011, Michael Markert wrote: > Attached code handles both capturing from summary and message > buffer. I've added this file into contrib, beside org-contacts.el -- Julien Danjou ❱ http://julien.danjou.info pgpYWL7yrdunj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-04-30 Thread Michael Markert
On 11 Apr 2011, Michael Markert wrote: > On 11 Apr 2011, Bastien wrote: > >> Julien Danjou writes: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 09 2011, Michael Markert wrote: >>> No, but if it's necessary (or helping) I'll do so. >>> >>> Well, since org-contacts is part of contrib I think it's not necessary, >>> so I

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-04-12 Thread Julien Danjou
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 n

Re: [O] Completing with anything

2011-04-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Because this one return (list start end completion-choies), and does not > do anything else. I can't do it myself using the current completion > mechanism, IIUC. Hmm... good point, doing it in completion-choices is not reliable, tho using as completion table something like: (lambda (string pred

[O] Completing with anything (was: [Orgmode] Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org)

2011-03-18 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sat, Feb 12 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote: > For more complex cases, there is also the issue of what to do when some > parts of the completion are case-sensitive and other parts aren't > (e.g. completion of case-sensitive envvars in case-insensitive file > names), although this is less important f