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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2019-02-20 12:07:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2019-02-20 12:07:22 -0800 |
| commit | 83a9133e35827c1edbd8bf24a17ffa3b4bfb7be3 (patch) | |
| tree | 11d2812db4a9ee4e66976b3a5f1e5ecbe52b4955 /lisp/minibuffer.el | |
| parent | ae77728d14e58054bdaee3c6965979947c778208 (diff) | |
| parent | ff9c9620794e5fe5692cfd3badd207aac78921cb (diff) | |
| download | emacs-83a9133e35827c1edbd8bf24a17ffa3b4bfb7be3.tar.gz | |
Merge from origin/emacs-26
ff9c962 ; * lisp/ldefs-boot.el: Update.
b4a251c * ; ChangeLog.3 update
d3104e3 * etc/AUTHORS: Update.
a19bfb7 Remove .art from the default list of ImageMagick extensions
6985caa Fix input after setting x-wait-for-event-timeout nil
715388a Fix two warnings in eshell.texi
d49cdd9 * lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-table-dynamic): Improve docs...
5dc4e51 * lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el (debug-on-variable-change): Doc fi...
76ef805 Fix a typo in ELisp manual
b5e66f4 Update citations of Internet RFCs
57ece2a Fix handling of manpage references divided by hyphenation
7ad0cd6 * doc/misc/eshell.texi: Fix some @ref's.
12b7940 Fix a typo in lispref/syntax.texi
# Conflicts:
# lisp/gnus/nnrss.el
# lisp/mail/ietf-drums.el
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/minibuffer.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/minibuffer.el | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el index cc87ffaced5..9fe961d748c 100644 --- a/lisp/minibuffer.el +++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el @@ -174,10 +174,14 @@ ACTION can be one of nil, t or `lambda'." (defun completion-table-dynamic (fun &optional switch-buffer) "Use function FUN as a dynamic completion table. -FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is required, -and it should return an alist containing all the intended possible completions. -This alist may be a full list of possible completions so that FUN can ignore -the value of its argument. +FUN is called with one argument, the string for which completion is requested, +and it should return a completion table containing all the intended possible +completions. +This table is allowed to include elements that do not actually match the +string: they will be automatically filtered out. +The completion table returned by FUN can use any of the usual formats of +completion tables such as lists, alists, and hash-tables. + If SWITCH-BUFFER is non-nil and completion is performed in the minibuffer, FUN will be called in the buffer from which the minibuffer was entered. @@ -185,6 +189,8 @@ was entered. The result of the `completion-table-dynamic' form is a function that can be used as the COLLECTION argument to `try-completion' and `all-completions'. See Info node `(elisp)Programmed Completion'. +The completion table returned by `completion-table-dynamic' has empty +metadata and trivial boundaries. See also the related function `completion-table-with-cache'." (lambda (string pred action) |