*complet(e|ion)-characters*

• To: naha@riverside.scrc.symbolics.com
• Subject: *complet(e|ion)-characters*
• From: "Donald H. Mitchell" <dmitchell@trc.amoco.com>
• Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:46-0500
• Cc: dmitchell@trc.amoco.com, clim@BBN.COM, customer-reports@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com
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    Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:50 CDT
    From: Mark Nahabedian <naha@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

	Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:51 EDT
	From: "Donald H. Mitchell" <dmitchell@trc.amoco.com>

	UX1038

	Genera 8.1, Clim 1.1

	On the Symbolics, there is no *completion-characters* but there is *complete-characters*.
	Is the documentation wrong or ahead of the implementation?

	binding *complete-characters* and declaring it special does not seem to affect
	completing-from-suggestions.  Is it only to affect complete-input?  Do I have to bind it
	outside of my accept method?

    COMPLETING-FROM-SUGGESTIONS calls COMPLETE-INPUT to do the work.
    CLIM:*COMPLETE-CHARACTERS* should already be declared special (it's
    defined with DEFVAR).  If it gave you a special variable warning for it
    then perhaps you got the package wrong?

No.  It just didn't seem to pay any attention to the additional characters that I put
into it.  I did the clean, non-pervasive

(define-presentation-method accept (...)
  (let ((CLIM:*COMPLETE-CHARACTERS* (append '(#\a #\u) CLIM:*COMPLETE-CHARACTERS*)))
    (declare (special CLIM:*COMPLETE-CHARACTERS*))
    (complete-input...)))

Maybe CLIM:*COMPLETE-CHARACTERS* have to be whitespace?  The documentation doesn't say.
Everyone who has used this part of my interface says it should automatically complete as
soon as it can.

Don Mitchell			dmitchell@trc.amoco.com
Amoco Production Company	(918) 660-4270
Tulsa Research Center
P.O. Box 3385, Tulsa, OK 74102

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