Re: partial-completion-mode and M-TAB

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:36:42 -0500 Richard Stallman wrote:

>     M-x partial-completion-mode
>
>     open some c file:
>
>     M-TAB runs the command PC-lisp-complete-symbol
>
> The problem is the fact that partial-completion-mode rebinds this
> command.  The clean way to do it would be by setting hooks.  However,
> I guess there is no suitable hook in lisp-complete-symbol that can
> call a different general completion mechanism.
>
> As a stopgap, partial-completion-mode could rebind the command
> lisp-complete-symbol to PC-lisp-complete-symbol.

Should it touch the M-TAB binding then at all?  The only case where
it makes sense is emacs-lisp-mode and there it's not working.

Maybe it's sufficient to just add a note to the docstring how you
can rebind M-TAB yourself in emacs-lisp-mode-hook.

David