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Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI


From: João Távora
Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 09:21:33 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> Based on the discussion so far, it seems that:
>
> [...]
> - it should be possible to implement a generic frontend for completion
>   that both can use, and other tools like yasnippet can use IIUC.  The

Thanks for the summary of the discussion so far, but this last statement
might bring some confusion... Yasnippet can curiously fit into many
parts of the problem:

* It can be a source to completion frameworks, auto-complete and company
  have such sources.

* It prompts the user when it finds more than one snippet for an abbrev,
  and uses its own `yas-prompt-functions' abstraction. Some of the
  functions offer completion.

* It installs a keybinding for TAB which is problematic because it is
  very sought-after binding for completion-related stuff. The parts of
  this discussion that concerned yasnippet dealed with this, AFAIK.

>   with their experience of writing it once already, and we have to make
>   sure we don't end up with a solution no one wants to use :)

Yep. For me personally it would make sense to evaluate alternatives
based a matrix like the one proposed by Stefan earlier:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/166661/match=completion+ui

João



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