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Re: List possible completions in pop-up menu and choose from it.
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Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
Re: List possible completions in pop-up menu and choose from it. |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:57:21 -0600 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) |
Rolex JM wrote:
> I want to list in pop-up menu the possible completions returned from
> (dabbrev-completion). Then I can choose one from it and insert it into
> the text, just as (semantic-ia-complete-symbol-menu)
> does.
dabbrev-completion stores its results in dabbrev--last-obarray, which is
a data structure suitable for the completion functions. You can read
about obarrays in the "Creating [and Interning] Symbols
==============================" node of the
Emacs Lisp manual.
Converting that to a menu keymap was too interesting for me to pass up:
(let ((menu (make-sparse-keymap "dabbrev-completion"))
(completions (let ((symbols '()))
(mapatoms (lambda (sym)
(setq symbols (cons sym symbols)))
dabbrev--last-obarray)
(sort symbols 'string-lessp))))
(mapc (lambda (completion)
(define-key menu (vector completion)
`(,(symbol-name completion) .
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(insert ,(symbol-name completion))))))
(nreverse completions))
(x-popup-menu t menu))
You can create your own command that you could bind to a key, mouse
click, or menu item by wrapping that in something like:
(defun dabbrev-mouse-completion (event)
"*Just like `dabbrev-completion', but display a popup menu."
(interactive "*e")
(save-window-excursion ; suppress *Completions* buffer
(dabbrev-mouse-completion))
...
)
And then replace the t POSITION argument to x-popup-menu with event.
--
Kevin Rodgers