Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI

[Stefan Monnier]

> a) `c-a-p-f' looks less accessible to the end user than `company-backends',

That's because it's mostly not meant for the users to change, and that's
because users should not need to touch it.

`company-backends' in contrast contains a mishmash of things, 90% of
which is irrelevant to any given situation.

> The names of the c-a-p-functions used by e.g. IELM follow no
> discernible convention.

A good naming convention for them would be welcome, indeed.

> b) There's no direct analog to "merged" Company backends in
> completion-at-point-functions'. `company-backends' can contain list values,
> and `company--multi-backend-adapter' handles the merging of the
> returned data.

Indeed, there's no such thing yet.  Nothing prevents us from providing
a "completion-at-point-merge-backends" function which takes a list of
completion-at-point-functions and returns a new completion-at-point-function.

company-backends and completion-at-point-functions don't work 100%
identically, but the differences are present only because of history.
If Company had started with completion-at-point-functions it would live
very happily with it.


        Stefan