GNU bug report logs - #11906
24.1; completion-at-point failures

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 11906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daimrod <daimrod <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>, 11906 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11906: 24.1; completion-at-point failures
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:28:28 -0400

>> As mentioned, we could try and provide a generic completion-table cache
>> so as to make it easier to write completion tables that have
>> a significant computation cost.  Patches welcome.

> Maybe I didn't understand what you mean, but AFAIK it's already
> available. You can compute a list of possible completions only once and
> then return a completion table (start end COLLECTION) where collection
> is a function described here (info "(elisp) Programmed Completion").

That's just the easy part of writing a cached completion table.


        Stefan
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