* abbrev.el (abbrev-with-wrapper-hook): (re)move...

* simple.el (with-wrapper-hook): ...to here.  Add argument `args'.
* minibuffer.el (completion-in-region-functions): New hook.
(completion-in-region): New function.
* emacs-lisp/lisp.el (lisp-complete-symbol):
* pcomplete.el (pcomplete-std-complete): Use it.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index aad0d2a3375..ebc4f516608 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -299,6 +299,9 @@ the variable `byte-compile-compatibility') has been removed.
 
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
 
+** New function `completion-in-region' to use the standard completion
+facilities on a particular region of text.
+
 ** The 4th arg to all-completions (aka hide-spaces) is declared obsolete.
 
 ** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete.  It was used to pass the predicate