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changeset 66506:8abfaaf2f6f1
(Completion Commands): Clean up prev change.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:44:20 +0000 |
| parents | f60cd5bf2c8e |
| children | fcde30dab36e |
| files | lispref/minibuf.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/minibuf.texi Fri Oct 28 16:43:12 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/minibuf.texi Fri Oct 28 16:44:20 2005 +0000 @@ -960,12 +960,12 @@ the two strings is the actual completion, the second string serves as annotation. -@var{common-substring} represents a string common prefix between all -completions. @var{common-substring} is used to put faces on -@samp{*Completions*} to enhance visual feedback of the buffer; -@code{display-completion-list} use faces to highlight what all completions -have in common and where they begin to differ. @var{common-substring} -specifies the common part. +The argument @var{common-substring} is the prefix that is common to +all the completions. With normal Emacs completion, it is usually the +same as the string that was completed. @code{display-completion-list} +uses this to highlight text in the completion list for better visual +feedback. This is not needed in the minibuffer; for minibuffer +completion, you can pass @code{nil}. This function is called by @code{minibuffer-completion-help}. The most common way to use it is together with