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From: | Óscar Fuentes |
Subject: | Re: Why fido, icycles, ido, icomplete |
Date: | Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:59:13 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ergus <address@hidden> writes: > I actually have very strong feelings behind ido in 2019 (I know I am a > sort of apostate for this). But I think it is something that needs to be > removed/deprecated/substituted for the good of newer alternatives like > icomplete. So new users will try more maintained/ modern/ powerful/ > better integrated alternatives: like icomplete/ivy/helm. Ido is not used by default. What good does to remove it? > The intention is to move the users to the newer functionalities so they > can get the best possible first impression. New users are not exposed to ido at all. So I don't get your point. > From the software point of view it is "complex" to keep such a big piece > of code that nobody wants to touch anymore... specially if we already > have alternatives for it. People are not forced to work on Ido. They do because they want. > I think Abo-abo actually tried to modify ido to improve it and he > finally ended implementing ivy... was easier that way. I tried Ivy and decided that it is clearly inferior to my ido config. YMMV. Can we stop prentending there is One True Way of doing things?
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