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Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] Improve nano's completion feature to use external
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Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita |
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Re: [Nano-devel] [RFC] Improve nano's completion feature to use external sources of completion |
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Fri, 18 May 2018 21:23:45 -0300 |
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Op 18-05-18 om 17:31 schreef Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita:
>> Judging by
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-12/msg00016.html
>> there is interest in an improved version of nano's completion feature
>> to include external sources of completion.
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>> I'd like to improve the current implementation so that we could add
>> something like:
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>> pletion grep $shard /usr/share/dict/words
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>> into nanorc
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> Hm. You want to run this grep every time the user types ^]?
> That seems like a waste of time, and leads to a repetitious
> reading of the same file. Better just let nano read the
> relevant file into a special buffer and include that buffer
> in the completion search.
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I think details have been given in my answer to Brand. Please join the
discussion!