Re: enabling company-capf support in cfengine.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.01.2014 04:20, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Unfortunately though, "idle completion" is a less familiar term than
> > "auto-complete", to an average user.
>
> Right, it makes just as little sense as "automatic completion" to me.

"idle completion" is completion initiated automatically after Emacs has 
been idle for some time, also see "idle timer". How would you call it 
better?

> How 'bout:
>
> (defcustom company-minimum-prefix-length 3
>    "The minimum prefix length before Company pops up completion options."
                                               ^^^^ ^^
Also not ideal: although Company uses the "pseudo-tooltip" by default, 
depending on the value of `company-frontends' it may display completion 
candidates inline (when there's just one candidate, it does that 
anyway), or in the echo area. Or using some other way, provided someone 
writes a new frontend.

And this description mixes up notions of space and time. The "minimum 
prefix length" is a necessary condition, but the variable responsible 
for "before" is `company-idle-delay'.