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regexp completion (was: kill-ring visualization)
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
regexp completion (was: kill-ring visualization) |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:00:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> PS: I do not know how to do regexp-style completion, to tell you the
>> truth. I.e. I know how to implement the all-completions part of it,
>> obviously, but I don't know how to then merge the matches into something
>> suitable for try-completion. I guess you could just apply
>> try-completion to the list of matches, but that would only lead to
>> something useful if the matches share some prefix.
> Currently a `*' in the completion string acts as the simplest regexp
> (wildcard), and it does its job pretty well. Couldn't this be extended
> to the true regular expressions?
It probably could, but I don't know *how*. But maybe it's because I'd
want it to do something more than what it can. I.e. maybe the "trivial"
answer is pretty much the only answer.
Stefan
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- regexp completion (was: kill-ring visualization),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/25
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/25
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/26
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/26
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/27
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/27
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/30
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Stefan Monnier, 2010/03/30
- Re: kill-ring visualization, Juri Linkov, 2010/03/31
- RE: kill-ring visualization, Drew Adams, 2010/03/25