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Re: completion.el users?
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Christopher Schmidt |
Subject: |
Re: completion.el users? |
Date: |
Sat, 11 May 2013 23:05:35 +0100 (BST) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Drew,
thanks for your massive answer. I get your argumentation and all the
points you raised. I do not exactly agree.
> Or just because it supposedly is "not exactly used any more" - which
> is not demonstrated. Just googling "dynamic-completion-mode" gives
> 50K+ hits, some (other than this thread) as recent as 5 days ago.
There are 80 hits. Try to go past page eight.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dynamic-completion-mode%22
I went through the result - it does not indicate much usage of
dynamic-completion-mode.
> No, like your GIT search, that is admittedly _not_ a good indicator of
> the use of completion.el.
Why is that? Considering the massive amount of Emacs configurations
hosted over at github, the ratio of occurrences of auto-complete-mode
vs. dynamic-completion-mode is pretty representative.
> What is the real impetus for wanting to deprecate completion.el now?
Who is responsible for the code? Who steps up to fix bugs? Who is
willing to document the feature?[1]
No one is. Considering the state of GNU Emacs development, most likely
no one ever will.
Why promote usage of dynamic-completion-mode although there are other
free packages such as auto-complete-mode or predictive-mode[2] which are
superior to dynamic-completion-mode?
> That the "last non-cosmetic patch for it was made in 2007" is not a
> strike against it, IMHO. Not at all. And all the less so if that is
> reinforced with the "argument" that that "seems surprisingly long for
> a 90KB file."
>
> Completion.el has been in use for a long time.
Ultimately people moved on to other packages.
Why should the dev team keep the cruft?
How about moving the code to a special GNU ELPA branch - the GNU ELPAM
(Emacs Lisp Package Archaeological Museum)? Move it back to the GNU
ELPA if someone steps up to maintain it...
Christopher
[1] dynamic-completion-mode is not mentioned in the manual. The wiki
does not mention it either. This makes it an implementation detail of
GNU Emacs to me.
[2] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PredictiveMode
- RE: completion.el users?, (continued)
Re: completion.el users?, Christopher Schmidt, 2013/05/11
- RE: completion.el users?, Drew Adams, 2013/05/11
- Re: completion.el users?, Christopher Schmidt, 2013/05/11
- RE: completion.el users?, Drew Adams, 2013/05/11
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- RE: completion.el users?, Drew Adams, 2013/05/11
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