Re: [9fans] programmable pathname completion in Acme?

["Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>]

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nothing prevents textcomplete from forking.


2013/9/9 Lee Fallat <lee.fallat@muraculous.ca>

> Source code says: no.
>
> Check out line 725* in text.c, and begin your journey!
>
> *Code at line 725 in text.c for 9front acme:
>
> case 0x06:
>  case Kins: //interesting, didn't know you could use the insert key to
> invoke this too.
> rp = textcomplete(t); //the path completion
>  if(rp == nil)
> return;
> nr = runestrlen(rp);
>  break; /* fall through to normal insertion case */
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:38 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> currently the ^F pathname completion is handled internally by Acme. is
>> there a
>> way to pass the argument of ^F to a script instead?
>>
>>
>> my use case: find an existing pathname by supplying /any/ substring of it
>> and
>> invoking completion, as opposed to current requirement of providing whole
>> leading part. i have a script that takes part of pathname in $1 and
>> returns
>> all (hopefully exactly one) matching pathnames, and i want to plumb the ^F
>> from Acme to it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> dexen deVries
>>
>> [[[↓][→]]]
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>>
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