Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI

[Toby Cubitt]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:33:02AM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:49:27 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> >> Neither Company nor CAPF support refining the completion list by adding
> >> more characters to the prefix/pattern (somewhat similar to
> >> isearch).
> 
> SM> FWIW, this feature is indeed currently not provided by the
> SM> completion-at-point UI, but that is not because of
> SM> completion-at-point-functions (CAPF) which only provides the backends.
> 
> Yes.  Narrowing the list of candidates should be a frontend feature.

Yes, that's what I meant. In Completion-UI it is implemented as a
frontend feature.

Toby
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