Re: Fancy completion

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2010-08-30 04:12 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> That's awesome.  Is that something only users are supposed to meddle
> with, or does it make sense just to add `substring' to the list just for
> the `j' command?  Like thus? 

I think the idea is users customise completion-styles and get the kind
of completions they like everywhere. For example I set it to (basic
initials partial-completion). (substring is a new addition to Emacs 24).
But if you want to force certain type of completion you probably need to
meddle with completion-styles although I don't know if it will work.

There are also completion-at-point-functions and
completion-in-region-functions offering complete control of how
completion works.

completion-at-point-functions is usually set by modes for example
emacs-lisp-mode sets completion-at-point-functions.

The code is new so it may have bugs and missing features. But Stefan
Monnier is committed to making this completion code a default in as many
places as possible which is a good thing in my view.

Cheers,
Leo