Re: Completions in Semantic

[Eric M. Ludlam]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 20:14 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > For my completion engine, I used an overlay to wrap the text being
> > completed.
> 
> That's also what lisp-complete-symbol uses to tell minibuffer-completion
> what is to be completed (more specifically minibuffer-completion
> operates on a `field', so I create an overlay with a field property).
> 
> > As soon as the cursor leaves the overlay, or if the user
> > types a character that doesn't belong in the symbol such as SPC, ., or
> > other punctuation, then it exists.
> 
> That's the kind of UI I was thinking of, yes.  Can you point me to the
> relevant code you use for that (especially things like
> post-command-hook)?

It is in the cedet/semantic/complete.el, and the function is
semantic-complete-post-command-hook for the inline completion exit
conditions.

Enjoy
Eric