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This table uses a new 'external' completion style which has been in use in Eglot and other third-party extensions for a long time. It's meant for libraries that interface with an external tool which provides completions, such as a shell utility, an inferior process, an http server. The new file lisp/external-completion.el provides a helper function, external-completion-table which is given an interfacing function to the external tool and returns a "programmed completion" table that is bound to the 'external' completion style. That table can then be used with completing-read or any other facility expecting a completion table. When the 'external' is in use, the usual styles configured by the user or other in 'completion-styles' are completely overriden. This relatively minor inconvenience is the price to pay for responsive completion where the full set of completion candidates doesn't need to be transfered into Emacs's address space. * lisp/external-completion.el: New file. * etc/NEWS: (Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.1): Mention external-completion-table.
This directory contains the architecture-independent files used by or with Emacs. This includes some text files of documentation for GNU Emacs or of interest to Emacs users, and the file of dumped docstrings for Emacs functions and variables. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE INFORMATION FOR IMAGE FILES File: emacs.icon Author: Sun Microsystems, Inc Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GNU General Public License version 3 or later (see COPYING)