Method

GLibCompletioncomplete

deprecated: 2.26

Declaration

GList*
g_completion_complete (
  GCompletion* cmp,
  const gchar* prefix,
  gchar** new_prefix
)

Description

Attempts to complete the string prefix using the GCompletion target items.

Deprecated since: 2.26

Rarely used API.

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

prefix

Type: const gchar*

The prefix string, typically typed by the user, which is compared with each of the items.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

new_prefix

Type: gchar**

If non-NULL, returns the longest prefix which is common to all items that matched prefix, or NULL if no items matched prefix. This string should be freed when no longer needed.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: A list of gpointer

The list of items whose strings begin with prefix. This should not be changed.

The data is owned by the instance.