From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completing with anything
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:17:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3lkfthr.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa3fwqgegst.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr> (Julien Danjou's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:36:50 +0100")
Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:
Hi Julien,
>> Isn't completion of "L" to "Lionel" at the beginning of a line
>> exactly what your completion function should enable?
>
> No. To give a even more concrete application of my example: I'd like
> org-contacts to give completion for email addresses or nicknames. If
> you have a contact entry like:
>
> - Name: Emmett Brown
> - Nickname: doc
> - Email address: gigawatt@delorean.com
>
> What I'd like to do is that if the user enters:
>
> doc<TAB>
>
> is that it can be completed to
> "Emmett Brown <gigawatt@delorean.com>"
>
> But if I return such an item in COLLECTION, it just gets ignored
> because "Emmett Brown <gigawatt@delorean.com>" does not match "doc".
Now that is a completely understandable example! :-)
On the one hand, I'm a bit tempted to say that this is no COMPLETION,
but a kind of ABBREV EXPANSION (just like abbrev.el, skeleton.el,
temo.el, yasnippet.el, ...). On the other hand, I clearly see the
usefulness of such a dynamic "expansion-at-point".
What might be a solution is to allow COLLECTION to contain not only
strings, but also pairs (MATCH . EXPANSION), like ("doc" . "Emmett Brown
<gigawatt@delorean.com>").
But I'm really no expert with the completion code, so I cannot speak on
how much effort that is, and if it would break things. For example,
with normal completions you can usually cycle thru all completion
possibilities. Not sure if that would work after an expansion has taken
place.
Bye,
Tassilo
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Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-09 9:02 Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 19:00 ` John Hendy
2011-02-09 20:04 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-02-09 20:43 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 21:10 ` Russell Adams
2011-02-09 21:25 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-09 20:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 14:34 ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 14:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-09 19:26 ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 13:39 ` Dan Griswold
2011-02-10 14:42 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 14:45 ` Dan Davison
2011-02-10 14:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 15:05 ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 15:08 ` Dan Davison
2011-02-10 15:26 ` Rodrigo Lazo
2011-02-10 16:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-10 16:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 10:21 ` [Orgmode] " Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 20:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 23:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-12 18:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-20 16:58 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-18 15:00 ` Completing with anything (was: [Orgmode] Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org) Julien Danjou
2011-03-18 18:16 ` Completing with anything Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 11:23 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 12:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-21 13:36 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 14:17 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-03-21 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 16:55 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-21 17:04 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22 3:01 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-03-22 14:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-22 15:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-03-23 9:45 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-23 14:13 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-23 15:05 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-23 16:03 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-24 20:15 ` Cian
2011-03-25 10:16 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-26 22:06 ` Michael Markert
2011-03-26 23:40 ` Michael Markert
2011-04-09 12:13 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-09 13:54 ` Michael Markert
2011-04-11 9:24 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-11 9:37 ` Bastien
2011-04-11 13:42 ` Michael Markert
2011-04-30 13:39 ` Michael Markert
2011-05-03 8:09 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-22 10:00 ` Aankhen
2011-03-22 11:57 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-22 12:03 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-22 12:31 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-21 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 15:54 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-09 15:11 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-10 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-11 9:21 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-12 3:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-12 9:48 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-04 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 15:34 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-24 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 7:33 ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-24 9:16 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 12:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 13:18 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 14:45 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 18:30 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-26 2:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-26 7:50 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-28 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 11:08 ` Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 15:08 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-02-23 11:09 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-12 12:18 ` Bastien
2011-02-12 16:35 ` John Hendy
2011-02-12 17:12 ` Bastien
2011-02-23 11:11 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-12 19:42 ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-23 11:14 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-14 18:24 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-02-23 11:10 ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-26 17:26 ` Bastien
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