Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:03:45 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

SM> Extending the company API or the completion-ui API to handle things like
SM> filename completion (including the issues linked to handling
SM> quoting/unquoting) is far from obvious, so whether we like it or not,
SM> I think that completion-at-point-functions is not really negotiable.

In a hypothetical new "completion data backend" world, this would
essentially be the default data backend for all Emacs modes, right?
Then the user or packages or modes can enable more or alternate
completion backends as needed, augmenting or overriding that default.

Ted