Questions tagged [completion]
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How to populate emacs completion collection when list items include spaces
New to Emacs:
I am trying to populate a completion collection from a sql query:
All goes according to plan except the completion list is ends up as individual words rather than the complete list item as a string with spaces.
(defun…

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ZSH Autocompletion: Display value A, use value B
When using compdef for ZSH completion, I would like to display a "nice" name to a user (e.g. a device name) and when it is selected, a different value is injected (e.g. device serial number / UUID).
How can this be done with _arguments /…

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Is there a way to get javascript keywords and reserved words from nashron?
I am trying to create a completion provider for javascript. what I need is to get the keyword and reserved words of javascript from the nashorn. Is there a way to do that?

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How to fix: "Member 'value' in X produces result of type X, but context expects X" (X == "Either")
I'm setting up an api client with Openweathermap for a Swift based iOS app. I followed a tutorial for how to set it up, but had to change weather providers because their service no longer provides free api keys. I have a bug with the type of the…

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How do I make zsh compsys fallback to local files for commands?
I think the simplest example is that if a command does not exist, then invalid-command will present a list of files that you can tab complete on.
If the command (and completion) does exist, then on exhausting the completions, hitting …

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Downloading Text File From AWS S3 in Swift 5
This is likely a very easy answer. I am fairly new to Swift and just getting feet wet with AWS. I simply want to download a JSON file to a string var in Swift so that I can parse, etc. I'm not able to find a good example (other than a repetitive one…

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How to completion with function paren or arguments with Vim-lsp
With vim-lsp in java code, after type
System.out.printf
the following candidates appears:
printf(Locale l, String format, Object... args)
printf(String format, Object... args)
When I choose first of the candidates,
System.out.printf
but I want to…

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bash completion on empty (blank) command
On MSYS2 on my Windows machine, I have to switch to bash because tcsh is flaky and after an hour of messing around with completion scripts, .bashrc and .inputrc, I have almost got bash to behave in a way I am used to. However, there's one piece…

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using bash_completion with cli tool
I have a custom cli tool that i want to setup with bash_completion but want [tab][tab] to perform an enter action on cmdline.
my bash_completion file for wonder is:
_wonder()
{
local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W…

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Emacs dabbrev-expand for whole line
Is there some possibility to achieve whole line completion in emacs?
I mean something similar to vim's C-x C-l - like dabbrev-expand but completing whole line.

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Empty value generates mapper_parsing_exception for Elasticsearch completion suggester field
I have a name field which is a completion suggester, and indexing generates a mapper_parsing_exception error, stating value must have a length > 0.
There are indeed some empty values in this field. How do I accommodate them?
ignore_malformed had no…

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vim insert-mode autocomplete using viminfo, recently opened files, sorted by word frequency
vim completion looks in dictionary, thesaurus and other buffers, but not the registers and mru files - I can do it by opening .viminfo and other most recently used files in background buffers. Can this be automated in vim.
Also the completion (huge…

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What does -= and += mean in the function?
au FileType php call PHPFuncList()
function PHPFuncList()
set dictionary-=/etc/vim/php_funclist.txt dictionary+=/etc/vim/php_funclist.txt
set complete-=k complete+=k
endfunction
For the PHPFunctionList above, two lines in…

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Using iOS Swift Generics in Completion blocks
I Need to load a raw image from a resource and convert it to a UIImage that will be stored later in an image cache.
Every image has an identifier which is used as key in the cache.
When I try to solve that problem with generics, I get this strange…

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How to fill column with another on conditions applied on both columns
I am trying to perform a very simple data completion : I have two columns of the same measurement made in two different locations a few miles away from each other. Location 1 is more complete than location 2, and I want to complete the second with…

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