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24.3.50; Company and CAPF: dealing with completion values containing extra text

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 16555 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16555: 24.3.50;
 Company and CAPF: dealing with completion values containing extra text
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:23:15 -0500

> * Including extra text in completion table seems like it won't mesh well
>   with the completion-at-point-functions interface, and specifically
>   with the completion-at-point as the frontend. How would one write a
>   CAPF function for clang or eclim with argument lists in mind?

From a CAPF point of view, I think it would work as follows:
- all-completions would return the "cropped" names.
- `annotate-function' would be used to add the arglists to *Completions*.
- `exit-function' would be used to insert the arglist after selecting
  a candidate.


        Stefan

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