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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, 23377@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23377: 25.0.93; Completion is extremely slow for insert-char
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:34:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2jk27zq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571EEA4A.3020105@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon,  25 Apr 2016 21:10:50 -0700)

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:10:50 -0700
> Cc: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>, 23377@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Drew Adams wrote:
> > if the main reason to disable it is for performance in
> > an extreme use case (C-x 8 RET TAB)
> 
> It's not that extreme. It's natural for a user to get the whole list and then
> use C-s to find the desired character.

It surprises me that this is perceived as "natural", for an Emacs
user.  Do they also use this when completing on file names or buffer
names?  I don't think so.  So why would we assume they do so in this
case?  There are more than 30K names in the list popped up by the
above; how is it "reasonable", let alone economical, to search that
huge list, instead of typing some string to narrow down the list of
completions?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26  0:25 bug#23377: 25.0.93; Completion is extremely slow for insert-char N. Jackson
2016-04-26  1:04 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-26  2:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-26  2:51     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26  4:10       ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-26  5:43         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26  6:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-26  6:34         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-26 13:27           ` N. Jackson
2016-04-26 20:41             ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-27  1:31               ` N. Jackson
2016-04-26 11:51         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-26 15:49           ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-26 16:04             ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26 16:59               ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-26 17:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-26 18:52                 ` N. Jackson
2016-04-26 19:10                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27  2:09                     ` N. Jackson
     [not found]                   ` <<83r3dsyynq.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-26 20:18                     ` Drew Adams
2016-04-26 16:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-26 23:58               ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27  0:26                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-27  0:53                   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-27  1:19                     ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27  7:24                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 12:27                         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-27 19:04                           ` John Wiegley
2016-04-27  0:10             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-26  6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27  1:54   ` N. Jackson
2016-04-27  7:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-27 15:16       ` N. Jackson
2017-09-30 16:40         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-30 20:27           ` N. Jackson
2019-06-25 13:53             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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