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From: johnd@Stardent.COM (John R. Dennis @stardent)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Why does completion require an alist?
Keywords: completions alist
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.182832.7249@Stardent.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 18:28:32 GMT
References: <Sep.1.03.08.23.1990.10801@sparky.rutgers.edu> <GF`%X?#@rpi.edu> <1990Sep3.210627.19773@edm.isac.CA>
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In article <1990Sep3.210627.19773@edm.isac.CA> steve@edm.isac.ca (Steve Hole) writes:
>This is something that I asked some time ago and got no response on.  I
>thought then that I might have been set up that way in anticipation of
>using it to something more interesting.   I modified the original
>function (just prototyped as a lisp function for now), that uses the
>second element in each dotted pair as a documentation string.  I had to
>modify the display algorithm for the possible completions to display the
>second element in a nice way in the possible completions list, but
>voila, instant non-obtrusive selection menu.  I often do this kind of
>thing: 

Would you care to share with us the modification you made to the display
algorithm that allows you to display the second element of the alist?

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