;;; Commentary:
;;
;; Company is a modular completion mechanism. Modules for retrieving completion
-;; candidates are called back-ends, modules for displaying them are front-ends.
+;; candidates are called backends, modules for displaying them are frontends.
;;
-;; Company comes with many back-ends, e.g. `company-elisp'. These are
+;; Company comes with many backends, e.g. `company-elisp'. These are
;; distributed in separate files and can be used individually.
;;
-;; Place company.el and the back-ends you want to use in a directory and add the
+;; Place company.el and the backends you want to use in a directory and add the
;; following to your .emacs:
;; (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/company")
;; (autoload 'company-mode "company" nil t)
;; Enable company-mode with M-x company-mode. For further information look at
;; the documentation for `company-mode' (C-h f company-mode RET)
;;
-;; If you want to start a specific back-end, call it interactively or use
+;; If you want to start a specific backend, call it interactively or use
;; `company-begin-backend'. For example:
;; M-x company-abbrev will prompt for and insert an abbrev.
;;
-;; To write your own back-end, look at the documentation for `company-backends'.
+;; To write your own backend, look at the documentation for `company-backends'.
;; Here is a simple example completing "foo":
;;
;; (defun company-my-backend (command &optional arg &rest ignored)
;; (`candidates (list "foobar" "foobaz" "foobarbaz"))
;; (`meta (format "This value is named %s" arg))))
;;
-;; Sometimes it is a good idea to mix several back-ends together, for example to
+;; Sometimes it is a good idea to mix several backends together, for example to
;; enrich gtags with dabbrev-code results (to emulate local variables).
-;; To do this, add a list with both back-ends as an element in company-backends.
+;; To do this, add a list with both backends as an element in company-backends.
;;
;;; Change Log:
;;
(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^Company not ")
(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^No candidate number ")
(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^Cannot complete at point$")
-(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^No other back-end$")
+(add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors "^No other backend$")
;;; Compatibility
(eval-and-compile
(defcustom company-frontends '(company-pseudo-tooltip-unless-just-one-frontend
company-preview-if-just-one-frontend
company-echo-metadata-frontend)
- "The list of active front-ends (visualizations).
-Each front-end is a function that takes one argument. It is called with
+ "The list of active frontends (visualizations).
+Each frontend is a function that takes one argument. It is called with
one of the following arguments:
`show': When the visualization should start.
(company-dabbrev-code company-gtags company-etags
company-keywords)
company-oddmuse company-files company-dabbrev)
- "The list of active back-ends (completion engines).
+ "The list of active backends (completion engines).
-Only one back-end is used at a time. The choice depends on the order of
+Only one backend is used at a time. The choice depends on the order of
the items in this list, and on the values they return in response to the
-`prefix' command (see below). But a back-end can also be a \"grouped\"
+`prefix' command (see below). But a backend can also be a \"grouped\"
one (see below).
-`company-begin-backend' can be used to start a specific back-end,
-`company-other-backend' will skip to the next matching back-end in the list.
+`company-begin-backend' can be used to start a specific backend,
+`company-other-backend' will skip to the next matching backend in the list.
-Each back-end is a function that takes a variable number of arguments.
-The first argument is the command requested from the back-end. It is one
+Each backend is a function that takes a variable number of arguments.
+The first argument is the command requested from the backend. It is one
of the following:
-`prefix': The back-end should return the text to be completed. It must be
+`prefix': The backend should return the text to be completed. It must be
text immediately before point. Returning nil from this command passes
-control to the next back-end. The function should return `stop' if it
+control to the next backend. The function should return `stop' if it
should complete but cannot (e.g. if it is in the middle of a string).
-Instead of a string, the back-end may return a cons where car is the prefix
+Instead of a string, the backend may return a cons where car is the prefix
and cdr is used instead of the actual prefix length in the comparison
against `company-minimum-prefix-length'. It must be either number or t,
and in the latter case the test automatically succeeds.
feature must disable cache (return t to `no-cache') and might also want to
respond to `match'.
-Optional commands:
+Optional commands
+=================
`sorted': Return t here to indicate that the candidates are sorted and will
not need to be sorted again.
from the list.
`no-cache': Usually company doesn't ask for candidates again as completion
-progresses, unless the back-end returns t for this command. The second
+progresses, unless the backend returns t for this command. The second
argument is the latest prefix.
`ignore-case': Return t here if the backend returns case-insensitive
`company-require-match'. Return value `never' overrides that option the
other way around.
-`init': Called once for each buffer. The back-end can check for external
+`init': Called once for each buffer. The backend can check for external
programs and files and load any required libraries. Raising an error here
-will show up in message log once, and the back-end will not be used for
+will show up in message log once, and the backend will not be used for
completion.
`post-completion': Called after a completion candidate has been inserted
into the buffer. The second argument is the candidate. Can be used to
modify it, e.g. to expand a snippet.
-The back-end should return nil for all commands it does not support or
+The backend should return nil for all commands it does not support or
does not know about. It should also be callable interactively and use
`company-begin-backend' to start itself in that case.
-Grouped back-ends:
+Grouped backends
+================
-An element of `company-backends' can also itself be a list of back-ends,
-then it's considered to be a \"grouped\" back-end.
+An element of `company-backends' can also be a list of backends. The
+completions from backends in such groups are merged, but only from those
+backends which return the same `prefix'.
-When possible, commands taking a candidate as an argument are dispatched to
-the back-end it came from. In other cases, the first non-nil value among
-all the back-ends is returned.
+If a backend command takes a candidate as an argument (e.g. `meta'), the
+call is dispatched to the backend the candidate came from. In other
+cases (except for `duplicates' and `sorted'), the first non-nil value among
+all the backends is returned.
-The latter is the case for the `prefix' command. But if the group contains
-the keyword `:with', the back-ends after it are ignored for this command.
+The group can also contain keywords. Currently, `:with' and `:sorted'
+keywords are defined. If the group contains keyword `:with', the backends
+listed after this keyword are ignored for the purpose of the `prefix'
+command. If the group contains keyword `:sorted', the final list of
+candidates is not sorted after concatenation.
-The completions from back-ends in a group are merged (but only from those
-that return the same `prefix').
-
-Asynchronous back-ends:
+Asynchronous backends
+=====================
The return value of each command can also be a cons (:async . FETCHER)
where FETCHER is a function of one argument, CALLBACK. When the data
True asynchronous operation is only supported for command `candidates', and
only during idle completion. Other commands will block the user interface,
-even if the back-end uses the asynchronous calling convention."
+even if the backend uses the asynchronous calling convention."
:type `(repeat
(choice
- :tag "Back-end"
+ :tag "backend"
,@(mapcar (lambda (b) `(const :tag ,(cdr b) ,(car b)))
company-safe-backends)
(symbol :tag "User defined")
- (repeat :tag "Merged Back-ends"
- (choice :tag "Back-end"
+ (repeat :tag "Merged backends"
+ (choice :tag "backend"
,@(mapcar (lambda (b)
`(const :tag ,(cdr b) ,(car b)))
company-safe-backends)
:type '(choice
(const :tag "None" nil)
(const :tag "Sort by occurrence" (company-sort-by-occurrence))
- (const :tag "Sort by back-end importance"
+ (const :tag "Sort by backend importance"
(company-sort-by-backend-importance))
(repeat :tag "User defined" (function))))
The hook is called with the selected candidate as an argument.
If you indend to use it to post-process candidates from a specific
-back-end, consider using the `post-completion' command instead."
+backend, consider using the `post-completion' command instead."
:type 'hook)
(defcustom company-minimum-prefix-length 3
"If enabled, disallow non-matching input.
This can be a function do determine if a match is required.
-This can be overridden by the back-end, if it returns t or `never' to
+This can be overridden by the backend, if it returns t or `never' to
`require-match'. `company-auto-complete' also takes precedence over this."
:type '(choice (const :tag "Off" nil)
(function :tag "Predicate function")
(error
(put backend 'company-init 'failed)
(unless (memq backend company--disabled-backends)
- (message "Company back-end '%s' could not be initialized:\n%s"
+ (message "Company backend '%s' could not be initialized:\n%s"
backend (error-message-string err)))
(cl-pushnew backend company--disabled-backends)
nil)))
inactive, as well.
The completion data is retrieved using `company-backends' and displayed
-using `company-frontends'. If you want to start a specific back-end, call
+using `company-frontends'. If you want to start a specific backend, call
it interactively or use `company-begin-backend'.
By default, the completions list is sorted alphabetically, unless the
(lambda (result) (setq res result)))
(while (eq res 'trash)
(if (> (- (time-to-seconds) start) company-async-timeout)
- (error "Company: Back-end %s async timeout with args %s"
+ (error "Company: backend %s async timeout with args %s"
backend args)
(sleep-for company-async-wait)))
res))))
(if (functionp company-backend)
(apply company-backend args)
(apply #'company--multi-backend-adapter company-backend args))
- (error (error "Company: Back-end %s error \"%s\" with args %s"
+ (error (error "Company: backend %s error \"%s\" with args %s"
company-backend (error-message-string err) args))))
(defun company--multi-backend-adapter (backends command &rest args)
when (not (and (symbolp b)
(eq 'failed (get b 'company-init))))
collect b)))
- (setq backends
- (if (eq command 'prefix)
- (butlast backends (length (member :with backends)))
- (delq :with backends)))
+
+ (when (eq command 'prefix)
+ (setq backends (butlast backends (length (member :with backends)))))
+
+ (unless (memq command '(sorted))
+ (setq backends (cl-delete-if #'keywordp backends)))
+
(pcase command
(`candidates
(company--multi-backend-adapter-candidates backends (car args)))
- (`sorted nil)
+ (`sorted (memq :sorted backends))
(`duplicates t)
((or `prefix `ignore-case `no-cache `require-match)
(let (value)
(defmacro company-with-candidate-inserted (candidate &rest body)
"Evaluate BODY with CANDIDATE temporarily inserted.
-This is a tool for back-ends that need candidates inserted before they
+This is a tool for backends that need candidates inserted before they
can retrieve meta-data for them."
(declare (indent 1))
`(let ((inhibit-modification-hooks t)
(dolist (frontend company-frontends)
(condition-case-unless-debug err
(funcall frontend command)
- (error (error "Company: Front-end %s error \"%s\" on command %s"
+ (error (error "Company: frontend %s error \"%s\" on command %s"
frontend (error-message-string err) command)))))
(defun company-set-selection (selection &optional force-update)
(defun company-sort-by-backend-importance (candidates)
"Sort CANDIDATES as two priority groups.
If `company-backend' is a function, do nothing. If it's a list, move
-candidates from back-ends before keyword `:with' to the front. Candidates
-from the rest of the back-ends in the group, if any, will be left at the end."
+candidates from backends before keyword `:with' to the front. Candidates
+from the rest of the backends in the group, if any, will be left at the end."
(if (functionp company-backend)
candidates
(let ((low-priority (cdr (memq :with company-backend))))
(when (ignore-errors (company-begin-backend backend))
(cl-return t))))
(unless company-candidates
- (error "No other back-end")))
+ (error "No other backend")))
(defun company-require-match-p ()
(let ((backend-value (company-call-backend 'require-match)))
(defun company-complete-number (n)
"Insert the Nth candidate visible in the tooltip.
-To show the number next to the candidates in some back-ends, enable
+To show the number next to the candidates in some backends, enable
`company-show-numbers'. When called interactively, uses the last typed
character, stripping the modifiers. That character must be a digit."
(interactive
(defun company-begin-backend (backend &optional callback)
"Start a completion at point using BACKEND."
- (interactive (let ((val (completing-read "Company back-end: "
+ (interactive (let ((val (completing-read "Company backend: "
obarray
'functionp nil "company-")))
(when val
(when (>= overhang 0) overhang))))))
(defun company-pseudo-tooltip-frontend (command)
- "`company-mode' front-end similar to a tooltip but based on overlays."
+ "`company-mode' frontend similar to a tooltip but based on overlays."
(cl-case command
(pre-command (company-pseudo-tooltip-hide-temporarily))
(post-command
(setq company-preview-overlay nil)))
(defun company-preview-frontend (command)
- "`company-mode' front-end showing the selection as if it had been inserted."
+ "`company-mode' frontend showing the selection as if it had been inserted."
(pcase command
(`pre-command (company-preview-hide))
(`post-command (company-preview-show-at-point (point)))
(company-echo-show)))
(defun company-echo-frontend (command)
- "`company-mode' front-end showing the candidates in the echo area."
+ "`company-mode' frontend showing the candidates in the echo area."
(pcase command
(`post-command (company-echo-show-soon 'company-echo-format))
(`hide (company-echo-hide))))
(defun company-echo-strip-common-frontend (command)
- "`company-mode' front-end showing the candidates in the echo area."
+ "`company-mode' frontend showing the candidates in the echo area."
(pcase command
(`post-command (company-echo-show-soon 'company-echo-strip-common-format))
(`hide (company-echo-hide))))
(defun company-echo-metadata-frontend (command)
- "`company-mode' front-end showing the documentation in the echo area."
+ "`company-mode' frontend showing the documentation in the echo area."
(pcase command
(`post-command (company-echo-show-when-idle 'company-fetch-metadata))
(`hide (company-echo-hide))))