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Re: up-line-or-search question



Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> ...
> 
> > But first we should probably try to come up with a context format like
> > the one we have for the completion system, with a fixed number of
> > parts (some of which may be blank most of the time), which allows us
> > to extend it to future uses.  And that's hard to predict, I fear.
> 
> What else might we want in the context? Most of the things used for
> completion wouldn't make sense because we don't dispatch based on
> such things as the command and we don't have any tags. The full name
> of the widget function is certainly useful (abbreviating it is perhaps
> unwise). What else? The key combination used is the only other thing I
> can think of.

Unless we ever come around to implementing a way to get the
context-information from the completion code in normal widgets (we had
this discussion some time ago, for a word-movement widget).


Bye
  Sven

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Sven Wischnowsky                          wischnow@xxxxxxxxx



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