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1 ;;; crm.el --- read multiple strings with completion
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1985-1986, 1993-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Sen Nagata <sen@eccosys.com>
6 ;; Keywords: completion, minibuffer, multiple elements
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23 ;;; Commentary:
25 ;; This code defines a function, `completing-read-multiple', which
26 ;; provides the ability to read multiple strings in the minibuffer,
27 ;; with completion. See that function's documentation for details.
29 ;; For the moment, I have decided to not bind any special behavior to
30 ;; the separator key. In the future, the separator key might be used
31 ;; to provide completion in certain circumstances. One of the reasons
32 ;; why this functionality is not yet provided is that it is unclear to
33 ;; the author what the precise circumstances are, under which
34 ;; separator-invoked completion should be provided.
36 ;; Design note: `completing-read-multiple' is modeled after
37 ;; `completing-read'. They should be similar -- it was intentional.
39 ;; Some of this code started out as translation from C code in
40 ;; src/minibuf.c to Emacs Lisp code. After this code was rewritten in Elisp
41 ;; and made to operate on any field, this file was completely rewritten to
42 ;; just reuse that code.
44 ;; Thanks to Sen Nagata <sen@eccosys.com> for the original version of the
45 ;; code, and sorry for throwing it all out. --Stef
47 ;; Thanks to Richard Stallman for all of his help (many of the good
48 ;; ideas in here are from him), Gerd Moellmann for his attention,
49 ;; Stefan Monnier for responding with a code sample and comments very
50 ;; early on, and Kai Grossjohann & Soren Dayton for valuable feedback.
52 ;;; Questions and Thoughts:
54 ;; -should `completing-read-multiple' allow a trailing separator in
55 ;; a return value when REQUIRE-MATCH is t? if not, should beep when a user
56 ;; tries to exit the minibuffer via RET?
58 ;; -tip: use M-f and M-b for ease of navigation among elements.
60 ;; - the difference between minibuffer-completion-table and
61 ;; crm-completion-table is just crm--collection-fn. In most cases it
62 ;; shouldn't make any difference. But if a non-CRM completion function
63 ;; happens to be used, it will use minibuffer-completion-table and
64 ;; crm--collection-fn will try to make it do "more or less the right
65 ;; thing" by making it complete on the last element, which is about as
66 ;; good as we can hope for right now.
67 ;; I'm not sure if it's important or not. Maybe we could just throw away
68 ;; crm-completion-table and crm--collection-fn, but there doesn't seem to
69 ;; be a pressing need for it, and since Sen did bother to write it, we may
70 ;; as well keep it, in case it helps.
72 ;;; History:
74 ;; 2000-04-10:
76 ;; first revamped version
78 ;;; Code:
80 ;; FIXME I don't see that this needs to exist as a separate variable.
81 ;; crm-separator should suffice.
82 (defconst crm-default-separator "[ \t]*,[ \t]*"
83 "Default value of `crm-separator'.")
85 (defvar crm-separator crm-default-separator
86 "Separator regexp used for separating strings in `completing-read-multiple'.
87 It should be a regexp that does not match the list of completion candidates.
88 The default value is `crm-default-separator'.")
90 (defvar crm-local-completion-map
91 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
92 (set-keymap-parent map minibuffer-local-completion-map)
93 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-complete] #'crm-complete)
94 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-complete-word] #'crm-complete-word)
95 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-completion-help] #'crm-completion-help)
96 map)
97 "Local keymap for minibuffer multiple input with completion.
98 Analog of `minibuffer-local-completion-map'.")
100 (defvar crm-local-must-match-map
101 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
102 ;; We'd want to have multiple inheritance here.
103 (set-keymap-parent map minibuffer-local-must-match-map)
104 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-complete] #'crm-complete)
105 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-complete-word] #'crm-complete-word)
106 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-completion-help] #'crm-completion-help)
107 (define-key map [remap minibuffer-complete-and-exit]
108 #'crm-complete-and-exit)
109 map)
110 "Local keymap for minibuffer multiple input with exact match completion.
111 Analog of `minibuffer-local-must-match-map' for crm.")
113 (defvar crm-completion-table nil
114 "An alist whose elements' cars are strings, or an obarray.
115 This is a table used for completion by `completing-read-multiple' and its
116 supporting functions.")
118 ;; this function evolved from a posting by Stefan Monnier
119 (defun crm--collection-fn (string predicate flag)
120 "Function used by `completing-read-multiple' to compute completion values.
121 The value of STRING is the string to be completed.
123 The value of PREDICATE is a function to filter possible matches, or
124 nil if none.
126 The value of FLAG is used to specify the type of completion operation.
127 A value of nil specifies `try-completion'. A value of t specifies
128 `all-completions'. A value of lambda specifies a test for an exact match.
130 For more information on STRING, PREDICATE, and FLAG, see the Elisp
131 Reference sections on 'Programmed Completion' and 'Basic Completion
132 Functions'."
133 (let ((beg 0))
134 (while (string-match crm-separator string beg)
135 (setq beg (match-end 0)))
136 (completion-table-with-context (substring string 0 beg)
137 crm-completion-table
138 (substring string beg)
139 predicate
140 flag)))
142 (defun crm--current-element ()
143 "Parse the minibuffer to find the current element.
144 Return the element's boundaries as (START . END)."
145 (let ((bob (minibuffer-prompt-end)))
146 (cons (save-excursion
147 (if (re-search-backward crm-separator bob t)
148 (match-end 0)
149 bob))
150 (save-excursion
151 (if (re-search-forward crm-separator nil t)
152 (match-beginning 0)
153 (point-max))))))
155 (defmacro crm--completion-command (beg end &rest body)
156 "Run BODY with BEG and END bound to the current element's boundaries."
157 (declare (indent 2) (debug (sexp sexp &rest body)))
158 `(let* ((crm--boundaries (crm--current-element))
159 (,beg (car crm--boundaries))
160 (,end (cdr crm--boundaries)))
161 ,@body))
163 (defun crm-completion-help ()
164 "Display a list of possible completions of the current minibuffer element."
165 (interactive)
166 (crm--completion-command beg end
167 (minibuffer-completion-help beg end))
168 nil)
170 (defun crm-complete ()
171 "Complete the current element.
172 If no characters can be completed, display a list of possible completions.
174 Return t if the current element is now a valid match; otherwise return nil."
175 (interactive)
176 (crm--completion-command beg end
177 (completion-in-region beg end
178 minibuffer-completion-table
179 minibuffer-completion-predicate)))
181 (defun crm-complete-word ()
182 "Complete the current element at most a single word.
183 Like `minibuffer-complete-word' but for `completing-read-multiple'."
184 (interactive)
185 (crm--completion-command beg end
186 (completion-in-region--single-word
187 beg end minibuffer-completion-table minibuffer-completion-predicate)))
189 (defun crm-complete-and-exit ()
190 "If all of the minibuffer elements are valid completions then exit.
191 All elements in the minibuffer must match. If there is a mismatch, move point
192 to the location of mismatch and do not exit.
194 This function is modeled after `minibuffer-complete-and-exit'."
195 (interactive)
196 (let ((doexit t))
197 (goto-char (minibuffer-prompt-end))
198 (while
199 (and doexit
200 (crm--completion-command beg end
201 (let ((end (copy-marker end t)))
202 (goto-char end)
203 (setq doexit nil)
204 (completion-complete-and-exit beg end
205 (lambda () (setq doexit t)))
206 (goto-char end)
207 (not (eobp))))
208 (looking-at crm-separator))
209 ;; Skip to the next element.
210 (goto-char (match-end 0)))
211 (if doexit (exit-minibuffer))))
213 (defun crm--choose-completion-string (choice buffer base-position
214 &rest ignored)
215 "Completion string chooser for `completing-read-multiple'.
216 This is called from `choose-completion-string-functions'.
217 It replaces the string that is currently being completed, without
218 exiting the minibuffer."
219 (let ((completion-no-auto-exit t)
220 (choose-completion-string-functions nil))
221 (choose-completion-string choice buffer base-position)
224 ;; superemulates behavior of completing_read in src/minibuf.c
225 ;; Use \\<crm-local-completion-map> so that help-enable-auto-load can
226 ;; do its thing. Any keymap that is defined will do.
227 ;;;###autoload
228 (defun completing-read-multiple
229 (prompt table &optional predicate require-match initial-input
230 hist def inherit-input-method)
231 "Read multiple strings in the minibuffer, with completion.
232 The arguments are the same as those of `completing-read'.
233 \\<crm-local-completion-map>
234 Input multiple strings by separating each one with a string that
235 matches the regexp `crm-separator'. For example, if the separator
236 regexp is \",\", entering \"alice,bob,eve\" specifies the strings
237 \"alice\", \"bob\", and \"eve\".
239 We refer to contiguous strings of non-separator-characters as
240 \"elements\". In this example there are three elements.
242 Completion is available on a per-element basis. For example, if the
243 contents of the minibuffer are \"alice,bob,eve\" and point is between
244 \"l\" and \"i\", pressing \\[minibuffer-complete] operates on the element \"alice\".
246 This function returns a list of the strings that were read,
247 with empty strings removed."
248 (unwind-protect
249 (progn
250 (add-hook 'choose-completion-string-functions
251 'crm--choose-completion-string)
252 (let* ((minibuffer-completion-table #'crm--collection-fn)
253 (minibuffer-completion-predicate predicate)
254 ;; see completing_read in src/minibuf.c
255 (minibuffer-completion-confirm
256 (unless (eq require-match t) require-match))
257 (crm-completion-table table)
258 (map (if require-match
259 crm-local-must-match-map
260 crm-local-completion-map))
261 ;; If the user enters empty input, `read-from-minibuffer'
262 ;; returns the empty string, not DEF.
263 (input (read-from-minibuffer
264 prompt initial-input map
265 nil hist def inherit-input-method)))
266 (and def (string-equal input "") (setq input def))
267 ;; Remove empty strings in the list of read strings.
268 (split-string input crm-separator t)))
269 (remove-hook 'choose-completion-string-functions
270 'crm--choose-completion-string)))
272 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'crm-minibuffer-complete 'crm-complete "23.1")
273 (define-obsolete-function-alias
274 'crm-minibuffer-completion-help 'crm-completion-help "23.1")
275 (define-obsolete-function-alias
276 'crm-minibuffer-complete-and-exit 'crm-complete-and-exit "23.1")
278 ;; testing and debugging
279 ;; (defun crm-init-test-environ ()
280 ;; "Set up some variables for testing."
281 ;; (interactive)
282 ;; (setq my-prompt "Prompt: ")
283 ;; (setq my-table
284 ;; '(("hi") ("there") ("man") ("may") ("mouth") ("ma")
285 ;; ("a") ("ab") ("abc") ("abd") ("abf") ("zab") ("acb")
286 ;; ("da") ("dab") ("dabc") ("dabd") ("dabf") ("dzab") ("dacb")
287 ;; ("fda") ("fdab") ("fdabc") ("fdabd") ("fdabf") ("fdzab") ("fdacb")
288 ;; ("gda") ("gdab") ("gdabc") ("gdabd") ("gdabf") ("gdzab") ("gdacb")
289 ;; ))
290 ;; (setq my-separator ","))
292 ;(completing-read-multiple my-prompt my-table)
293 ;(completing-read-multiple my-prompt my-table nil t)
294 ;(completing-read-multiple my-prompt my-table nil "match")
295 ;(completing-read my-prompt my-table nil t)
296 ;(completing-read my-prompt my-table nil "match")
298 (provide 'crm)
300 ;;; crm.el ends here