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Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico |
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Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:20:36 +0300 |
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 03:04:09 +0300
>
> >> I don't always know what file name I want to type either, and either
> >> guess by typing a part of the word and pressing TAB. Or type multiple
> >> relevant words at once, if the completion UI allows it (that's very
> >> helpful for choosing a project-relative file name in project-find-file).
> >
> > Never happens to me, and probably never will. If I don't know what to
> > type, I first find out (by "other means").
>
> Let me expand on one of the previous examples. There is this command,
> project-find-file, which expects you to choose among a number
> (thousands?) of long-ish file names relative to the project root.
>
> Do you also always precisely know the file name you want to visit in
> advance?
Yes, pretty much. Although I must qualify that: I don't (yet) use
project.el features except for testing.
> And so never really make use of the discoverability side-effect of
> the completion buffer?
Never. As I said: for me, completion is not a discoverability tool,
it's a type-saving tool. I use other features for discovering stuff.
> >> But Company is just as useful in "needs help in typing as few characters
> >> as possible" kind of scenarios.
> >
> > But its goal is still different, and doesn't make much sense in my
> > completion use cases. In fact, whenever I need to use programs that
> > only provide the "selection" type, I frequently am annoyed and many
> > times need to repeatedly type the same input until I get it right.
>
> I would hope that "Emacs with company-mode enabled" is not among such
> programs.
Emacs cannot be one such program, because it doesn't provide _only_
the selection type: there's always the usual completion.
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- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/11
- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/10
- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/10
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- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/04/11
- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/11
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- Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico, Jean Louis, 2021/04/11
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