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From: | Florian Beck |
Subject: | Re: Sorting Order of Completion Candidates |
Date: | Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:59:09 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 |
On 03/01/2011 02:25 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
While writing some code to index my notes I have run into a problem. I have a carefully crafted list of keywords sorted in order of frequency. (When assigning new keywords I want to consider the most frequent keywords first.) However (completing-read "Prompt: " '("a" "c" "b")) gives me Possible completions are: a b c whereas I want Possible completions are: a c b If there is no option or hook, if guess I could just modify the *Completions* buffer. Any hints how/where it is set up?1. Stefan can probably steer you as to how to do what you want with a recent version of vanilla Emacs.
I ended up modifying `minibuffer-completion-help'. There doesn't seem to be a way around that.
2. An alternative is to use Icicles. Then all you need to do is bind `icicle-sort-comparer' to nil around the call to `completing-read'. A nil value means do not sort. (You can also customize `icicle-sort-comparer' to use any default sort order you like.)
Thanks, I will look into that. Or do you replace the whole completion mechanism?
-- Florian Beck
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