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Small doc related to new completion functions
* doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (Programmed Completion): Mention completion-table-with-cache. * lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-table-dynamic) (completion-table-with-cache): Doc fixes. * etc/NEWS: Related markup. Unrelated copyedit.
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2014-02-27 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
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* minibuf.texi (Programmed Completion):
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Mention completion-table-with-cache.
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2014-02-25 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
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* display.texi (Window Systems):
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@ -1814,6 +1814,13 @@ possible completions of it. You can think of
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and the interface for programmed completion functions.
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@end defun
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@defun completion-table-with-cache function &optional ignore-case
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This is a wrapper for @code{completion-table-dynamic} that saves the
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last argument-result pair. This means that multiple lookups with the
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same argument only need to call @var{function} once. This can be useful
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when a slow operation is involved, such as calling an external process.
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@end defun
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@node Completion in Buffers
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@subsection Completion in Ordinary Buffers
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@cindex inline completion
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etc/NEWS
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etc/NEWS
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strings (including for partial or substring completion), or call
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`completion-hilit-commonality' to add the highlight.
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*** New function `completion-table-with-cache' is a wrapper for
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`completion-table-dynamic' that caches the result of the last lookup.
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*** New function `completion-table-merge' to combine several
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completion tables by merging their completions.
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** New minor modes `prettify-symbols-mode' and `global-prettify-symbols-mode'
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let you enable symbol prettification (replacing a string like "lambda" with
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the Greek lambda character).
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display specified symbols as composed characters. E.g., in Emacs Lisp mode,
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this replaces the string "lambda" with the Greek lambda character.
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** Terminal changes
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2014-02-27 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
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* minibuffer.el (completion-table-dynamic)
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(completion-table-with-cache): Doc fixes.
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* emacs-lisp/crm.el (crm-default-separator, crm-separator)
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(completing-read-multiple): Doc fixes.
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@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was entered.
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The result of the `completion-table-dynamic' form is a function
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that can be used as the COLLECTION argument to `try-completion' and
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`all-completions'. See Info node `(elisp)Programmed Completion'."
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`all-completions'. See Info node `(elisp)Programmed Completion'.
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See also the related function `completion-table-with-cache'."
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(lambda (string pred action)
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(if (or (eq (car-safe action) 'boundaries) (eq action 'metadata))
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;; `fun' is not supposed to return another function but a plain old
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@ -191,13 +193,15 @@ that can be used as the COLLECTION argument to `try-completion' and
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(complete-with-action action (funcall fun string) string pred)))))
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(defun completion-table-with-cache (fun &optional ignore-case)
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"Create dynamic completion table from FUN, with cache.
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This wraps `completion-table-dynamic', but saves the last
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"Create dynamic completion table from function FUN, with cache.
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This is a wrapper for `completion-table-dynamic' that saves the last
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argument-result pair from FUN, so that several lookups with the
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same argument (or with an argument that starts with the first one)
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only need to call FUN once. Most useful when FUN performs a relatively
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slow operation, such as calling an external process (see Bug#11906).
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only need to call FUN once. This can be useful when FUN performs a
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relatively slow operation, such as calling an external process.
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When IGNORE-CASE is non-nil, FUN is expected to be case-insensitive."
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;; See eg bug#11906.
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(let* (last-arg last-result
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(new-fun
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(lambda (arg)
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