[net.emacs] String Completion posted to net.sources

majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka) (08/02/85)

I've posted an Mlisp string-completion function to net.sources.  Works for
Unipress #264.

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Marc Majka  -  UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision

mly@mit-prep (08/04/85)

From: Richard Mlynarik <mly@mit-prep>
   Path: mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!majka
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   Subject: String Completion posted to net.sources
   Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:58:11 EDT

   I've posted an Mlisp string-completion function to net.sources.  Works for
   Unipress #264.

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   Marc Majka  -  UBC Laboratory for Computational Vision

An interesting aside is that the source code mentioned contains the
comment "GNU?  Forget it." in referring to the possibility of porting
to other unix emacs versions.

It turns out that the best reason to forget doing it is that GNU Emacs
already contains this functionality and more, by way of the built-in
completing-read function, which read-buffer, read-command,
read-file-name, etc, all call (as one would expect they would!)