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bug#5139: 23.1.50; feature request: completion-buffer-sort-function
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#5139: 23.1.50; feature request: completion-buffer-sort-function |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:58:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> When a *Completions* buffer is generated by minibuffer-completion-help
> it will sort the possible completions using string-lessp. It would be
> nice if the sorting order was not hard-coded but could be modified
> according to context. That's why I want to suggest to replace the
> call of string-lessp by something like
>
> (funcall completion-buffer-sort-function)
>
> so that completion-buffer-sort-function can be bound by the caller
> to something else according to context.
I think what the various packages that do completion (ido, helm,
company, etc) do is replace the entire completion function, which seems
more flexible. And making all those respect such a variable I thing
would be difficult.
So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
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- bug#5139: 23.1.50; feature request: completion-buffer-sort-function,
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