The result of the `completion-table-dynamic' form is a function
that can be used as the COLLECTION argument to `try-completion' and
-`all-completions'. See Info node `(elisp)Programmed Completion'."
+`all-completions'. See Info node `(elisp)Programmed Completion'.
+
+See also the related function `completion-table-with-cache'."
(lambda (string pred action)
(if (or (eq (car-safe action) 'boundaries) (eq action 'metadata))
;; `fun' is not supposed to return another function but a plain old
(complete-with-action action (funcall fun string) string pred)))))
(defun completion-table-with-cache (fun &optional ignore-case)
- "Create dynamic completion table from FUN, with cache.
-This wraps `completion-table-dynamic', but saves the last
+ "Create dynamic completion table from function FUN, with cache.
+This is a wrapper for `completion-table-dynamic' that saves the last
argument-result pair from FUN, so that several lookups with the
same argument (or with an argument that starts with the first one)
-only need to call FUN once. Most useful when FUN performs a relatively
-slow operation, such as calling an external process (see Bug#11906).
+only need to call FUN once. This can be useful when FUN performs a
+relatively slow operation, such as calling an external process.
+
When IGNORE-CASE is non-nil, FUN is expected to be case-insensitive."
+ ;; See eg bug#11906.
(let* (last-arg last-result
(new-fun
(lambda (arg)
"Create a completion table that tries each table in TABLES in turn."
;; FIXME: the boundaries may come from TABLE1 even when the completion list
;; is returned by TABLE2 (because TABLE1 returned an empty list).
+ ;; Same potential problem if any of the tables use quoting.
(lambda (string pred action)
(completion--some (lambda (table)
(complete-with-action action table string pred))
tables)))
+(defun completion-table-merge (&rest tables)
+ "Create a completion table that collects completions from all TABLES."
+ ;; FIXME: same caveats as in `completion-table-in-turn'.
+ (lambda (string pred action)
+ (cond
+ ((null action)
+ (let ((retvals (mapcar (lambda (table)
+ (try-completion string table pred))
+ tables)))
+ (if (member string retvals)
+ string
+ (try-completion string
+ (mapcar (lambda (value)
+ (if (eq value t) string value))
+ (delq nil retvals))
+ pred))))
+ ((eq action t)
+ (apply #'append (mapcar (lambda (table)
+ (all-completions string table pred))
+ tables)))
+ (t
+ (completion--some (lambda (table)
+ (complete-with-action action table string pred))
+ tables)))))
+
(defun completion-table-with-quoting (table unquote requote)
;; A difficult part of completion-with-quoting is to map positions in the
;; quoted string to equivalent positions in the unquoted string and
(setq table (pop new))
(setq point (pop new))
(pop new))))
- (result
- (completion--some (lambda (style)
- (funcall (nth n (assq style
- completion-styles-alist))
- string table pred point))
- (completion--styles metadata))))
+ (result
+ (completion--some (lambda (style)
+ (funcall (nth n (assq style
+ completion-styles-alist))
+ string table pred point))
+ (completion--styles metadata))))
(if requote
(funcall requote result n)
result)))
(concat before ext after)
table predicate (1+ point) md))
exts))))
- (when (and (= 1 (length comps) (consp (car comps))))
+ (when (and (null (cdr comps)) (consp (car comps)))
(setq comp (car comps)))))
;; Completing a single word is actually more difficult than completing
(defun read-file-name (prompt &optional dir default-filename mustmatch initial predicate)
"Read file name, prompting with PROMPT and completing in directory DIR.
-Value is not expanded---you must call `expand-file-name' yourself.
+The return value is not expanded---you must call `expand-file-name' yourself.
DIR is the directory to use for completing relative file names.
It should be an absolute directory name, or nil (which means the