* lisp/ecomplete.el: Add completion-table; use lexical-binding and cl-lib

Also remove redundant :group args.
(ecomplete-database-file): Use locate-user-emacs-file.
(ecomplete-completion-table): New completion table.
(completion-category-defaults): Set default behavior for that table.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d30f0b087cd..bb84396df9c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ non-text modes.
 
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 27.1
 
+** Ecomplete
+*** The ecomplete sorting has changed to a decay-based algorithm.
+This can be controlled by the new `ecomplete-sort-predicate' variable.
+
+*** The 'ecompleterc' file is now placed in ~/.emacs.d/ecompleterc by default
+Of course it will still find it if you have it in ~/.ecompleterc
+
 ** Smtpmail
 Authentication mechanisms can be added via external packages, by
 defining new cl-defmethod of smtpmail-try-auth-method.
@@ -237,9 +244,6 @@ It's a simple convenience function for looking up MIME types based on
 file name extensions.
 
 +++
-** The ecomplete sorting has changed to a decay-based algorithm.  This
-can be controlled by the new `ecomplete-sort-predicate' variable.
-
 ** The new function 'read-answer' accepts either long or short answers
 depending on the new customizable variable 'read-answer-short'.