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From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
	50459@debbugs.gnu.org, Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Subject: bug#50459: 28.0.50; Python shell completion is incompatible with flex, orderless, etc.
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:06:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALDnm51LVP4EouTkJN2qgS0jxTZ2Qeb308tvfhGSyucwTk=n0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ee6271b-142e-7cc1-3d24-7e5c342ef86b@yandex.ru>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 2:28 PM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 10.09.2021 16:14, João Távora wrote:
> > - If you're OK with letting the server do the filtering and the
> >    highlighting, you can make a "backend" style like I did for SLY, for
> >    example.  It's going to be faster, but `completion-styles` won't be
> >    honoured.  That's doesn't mean you give up 100% on "flex".  In SLY,
> >    there is flex implemented on the Common Lisp side, and for Eglot, many
> >    LSP server do their own flex matching.
>
> You can't really do that with python-shell completion.

Probably not unless you write some python, no.  I don't see that
as being that dirty.

> Nor do you need
> do: the basic pcmpl mechanism should work just fine with it, and for
> performance the completion table just needs some smarter caching.

Yes, as I said in b), with "sufficiently smart caching" (and infinite
memory space) you can do everything, indeed.  It's one of the
famous "two hard problems" though, so good luck.

João Távora





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-10 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07 17:52 bug#50459: 28.0.50; Python shell completion is incompatible with flex, orderless, etc Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-08 17:44 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-09  7:11   ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-09  7:32     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09  7:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09  7:40   ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-09  7:49     ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09  8:45       ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-09  8:50         ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-09 16:46           ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-10 11:37             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-10 11:50               ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-10 13:14                 ` João Távora
2021-09-10 13:28                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-10 14:06                     ` João Távora [this message]
2021-09-10 14:22                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-10 14:39                         ` João Távora
2021-09-10 14:43                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-10 19:27                             ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-10 20:08                               ` João Távora
2021-09-11 12:09                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-11 12:34                   ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-11 12:36                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-10 13:32             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-10 19:08 ` bug#50459: 28.0.50; [PATCH] " Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-11 12:50   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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