crm
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
Author: Sen Nagata
Summary
Read multiple strings with completion
Commentary
This code defines a function, `completing-read-multiple', which
provides the ability to read multiple strings in the minibuffer,
with completion. See that function's documentation for details.
For the moment, I have decided to not bind any special behavior to
the separator key. In the future, the separator key might be used
to provide completion in certain circumstances. One of the reasons
why this functionality is not yet provided is that it is unclear to
the author what the precise circumstances are, under which
separator-invoked completion should be provided.
Design note: `completing-read-multiple' is modeled after
`completing-read'. They should be similar -- it was intentional.
Some of this code started out as translation from C code in
src/minibuf.c to Emacs Lisp code. After this code was rewritten in Elisp
and made to operate on any field, this file was completely rewritten to
just reuse that code.
Thanks to Sen Nagata for the original version of the
code, and sorry for throwing it all out. --Stef
Thanks to Richard Stallman for all of his help (many of the good
ideas in here are from him), Gerd Moellmann for his attention,
Stefan Monnier for responding with a code sample and comments very
early on, and Kai Grossjohann & Soren Dayton for valuable feedback.
Reverse dependencies