RE: completion.el users?

[Drew Adams]

Christopher, you repeat your points:

1. completion.el is not used as much as auto-complete-mode.

2. auto-complete-mode is superior to completion.el.

I repeat mine:

1. auto-complete-mode is not part of Emacs.  I am not against adding it.
Hurrahing a-c-m does not require denigrating completion.el.

2. a-c-m does not yet do what completion.el does, AFAICT.  So far, they appear
to be complementary.

3. completion.el currently serves a purpose, even if the number of users is not
great.

4. completion.el does not require a lot of maintenance to keep it in its present
state.  No one is asking for added doc, or even a code cleanup (both of which
might be welcome).  Just leave it alone and let people use it until Emacs can
offer something better.

5. If a-c-m is enhanced to do what completion.el does (good), and if a-c-m is
added to Emacs (good), then completion.el would effectively be obsolete and
could be deprecated.  Until then it is not obsolete, regardless of how many
users it has relative to a-c-m.