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Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:49:44 -0400 |
In some important cases, it is not enough to recuperate the string used in
*Completions* as the return value from `completing-read'. In those cases,
Icicles must recuperate the entire raw candidate value from the TABLE
argument
I can see how that can be so.
One way that Icicles does this (the best way, when it is possible) is to use
the number (i.e. index) of the candidate in the TABLE arg. This index
corresponds to the order of candidates when cycling and the order of the
candidates in *Completions*.
That makes sense for a list or an alist, but how do you make that work
for an obarray or hash table? You could scan it in a canonical order
to convert numbers to elements; is that what you do?
To simplify, think of `icicle-candidate-alist' as the TABLE arg to
`completing-read'. `icicle-filter-alist' filters this alist, keeping only
those candidates that are current (i.e., whose strings are currently
displayed in *Completions*).
I think the right way to handle these features is to implement
those that we decide we want in minibuf.c.
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, (continued)
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/20
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/19
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/20
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/16
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/16
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/16
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/16
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/16
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/16
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/17
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/17
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/18
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Drew Adams, 2007/06/25
- Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/26