Re: find-file-project

[Stefan Monnier]

>> We should try and unify the metadata returned by the completion-tables
>> and the metadata returned by the completion-at-point-functions (or
>> provided via completion-extra-properties).
> Yup.  We should probably do that sooner rather than later.

Yes.

>>>> [ I did have some earlier version of partial completion match "**/file"
>>>> to "foo/bar/file.el", but the current code doesn't have that, and even
>>>> less so without a "**".  ]
>>> Why not?
>> Couldn't find that 25th hour!
> Well, I meant that if earlier code already did it, you had to remove it. But
> I guess there was more work to be done, to make it good enough for public.

The current code is a complete rewrite and works differently (in the
previous code, the "boundaries" part didn't exist and the * and ** was
implemented inside the completion-table).


        Stefan