Yegappan wrote:
> >> I am attaching a patch to add a function to get the command-line
> >> completion matches.
> >
> > Interesting. It seems useful, but I can't think of when or where.
> > How would one use this?
> >
>
> Many Vim plugins need the list of matches produced by the built-in
> Vim completion feature. There are several Vim plugin libraries that
> use different workarounds to get this list today. For example, look
> at the following library that uses different methods to get the list
> of color schemes, syntax items, history entries, etc.
>
> https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim/blob/master/autoload/fzf/vim.vim
>
> Another Vim library that does similar things is:
>
> https://github.com/vim-scripts/tlib/tree/master/autoload/tlib
>
> Another one is the ctrlp plugin:
>
> https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim/blob/master/autoload/ctrlp.vim
>
> These Vim libraries/plugins can use the new function to get the list of
> completion matches in a clean way than the current work arounds.
>
> Also, the new function will allow custom user command completion
> functions to get the list of standard completion matches and then
> customize them. The new function will extend the power of the
> built-in completion feature to Vim plugins.
OK, I see the use for it. And it's not much code.
I'll add a simple test. And remove unused variables. And fix the
#ifdef.
I don't like the name much: getcmdmatches(). The first line of the help
is:
Return a list of command-line completion matches.
I think "completion" is the key word here. Perhaps
getcompletematches()? That's quite long. With an empty pattern it's
more a complete list than matches, thus we can leave "matches" out.
I think getcomplete() is better. Or should it be getcompletion()?
Avoids the double meaning of "complete".
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