From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 09:19:49 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Minor copyedits of completion-at-point-functions documentation X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~5356 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a8ddd05d7d32946b892b9faaba6c9736ed2ad847;p=emacs.git Minor copyedits of completion-at-point-functions documentation * lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-at-point-functions): * doc/lispref/minibuf.texi (Completion in Buffers): Fix wording and filling. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi b/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi index b01ebb26b69..1d1c93dd144 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/minibuf.texi @@ -1877,10 +1877,11 @@ are used to compute a completion table for completing the text at point. It can be used by major modes to provide mode-specific completion tables (@pxref{Major Mode Conventions}). -When the command @code{completion-at-point} runs, it calls the functions in the -list one by one, without any argument. Each function should return @code{nil} -unless it can and wants to take responsibility for the completion data for the -text at point. Otherwise it should return a list of the form +When the command @code{completion-at-point} runs, it calls the +functions in the list one by one, without any argument. Each function +should return @code{nil} unless it can and wants to take +responsibility for the completion data for the text at point. +Otherwise it should return a list of the following form: @example (@var{start} @var{end} @var{collection} . @var{props}) @@ -1910,8 +1911,8 @@ next function in @code{completion-at-point-functions} instead of reporting a completion failure. @end table -The functions on this hook should generally return quickly, since they may be -called very often (e.g., from @code{post-command-hook}). +The functions on this hook should generally return quickly, since they +may be called very often (e.g., from @code{post-command-hook}). Supplying a function for @var{collection} is strongly recommended if generating the list of completions is an expensive operation. Emacs may internally call functions in @code{completion-at-point-functions} @@ -1934,10 +1935,11 @@ can defer generating completions until necessary. You can use (my-make-completions))))) @end smallexample -Additionally, the @var{collection} should generally not be pre-filtered based -on the current text between @var{start} and @var{end}, because that is the -responsibility of the caller of @code{completion-at-point-functions} to do that -according to the completion styles it decides to use. +Additionally, the @var{collection} should generally not be +pre-filtered based on the current text between @var{start} and +@var{end}, because that is the responsibility of the caller of +@code{completion-at-point-functions} to do that according to the +completion styles it decides to use. A function in @code{completion-at-point-functions} may also return a function instead of a list as described above. In that case, that diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el index 6eded9c58fe..f1cbdc0cc36 100644 --- a/lisp/minibuffer.el +++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el @@ -2074,10 +2074,11 @@ Currently supported properties are all the properties that can appear in As is the case with most hooks, the functions are responsible for preserving things like point and current buffer. -NOTE: These functions should be cheap to run since they're sometimes run from -`post-command-hook' and they should ideally only choose which kind of -completion table to use and not pre-filter it based on the current text between -START and END (e.g. that would not obey `completion-styles').") +NOTE: These functions should be cheap to run since they're sometimes +run from `post-command-hook'; and they should ideally only choose +which kind of completion table to use, and not pre-filter it based +on the current text between START and END (e.g., they should not +obey `completion-styles').") (defvar completion--capf-misbehave-funs nil "List of functions found on `completion-at-point-functions' that misbehave.