GNU bug report logs - #24663
24.5; doc string of `completion-at-point-functions'

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:16:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.5

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24663 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24663: 24.5; doc string of `completion-at-point-functions'
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:26:11 +0300

On 14.10.2016 00:18, Drew Adams wrote:

>> AROUND point.
>
> Really?  In that case, that's what needs to be said in the doc.
>
> Of course, if it is AROUND point then presumably any text in the
> buffer can be used to determine what's to be completed (and in
> turn what the possible completions are).  It could use only the
> first two or last six characters of the buffer, ignoring the
> text immediately surrounding point.

Not really. The region to complete has to include the point.
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