From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 22324@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22324: 25.0.50; completion-category-defaults style doesn't override completion-styles (gets prepended instead)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 03:43:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9258e5f-4ee5-61dc-dc94-8ca697ff8a41@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yq8ypmi.fsf@gnus.org>
On 25.01.2022 14:19, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> Given that the only times people are likely to notice the distinction
>> are some odd edge cases (and the extra lag is not so big or obvious),
>> there will be even fewer occasions for people to learn about and
>> customize the new var.
>>
>> Unless we obsolete the previous one, which would be a fair approach,
>> if we knew that it actually has a fair amount of users who need to
>> migrate.
>
> Hard to say. Perhaps searching on Github for usages of the variable
> might give us a clue?
Sure.
https://github.com/search?q=%22completion-category-overrides%22&type=code should
a grand total of 2,433 matches, but the vast majority of those seem to
be users of Orderless who use this scheme:
(setq completion-styles '(orderless))
(setq completion-category-defaults nil)
(setq completion-category-overrides '((file (styles
partial-completion))))
Some add 'basic' before 'partial-completion' for better "Tramp hostname
completion".
Do these users expect the failover to the orderless style when
partial-completion fails to complete? Possible. Orderless is more lax.
But also kinda doubtful since partial-completion is fairly powerful by
itself, and entering the segments of a file name in a different order is
not something does often or intentionally.
Apparently this config is recommended in the README of both Corfu and
Vertico (https://github.com/minad/vertico#configuration), both projects
by Daniel Mendler.
I guess we should ask Daniel whether he has been aware of the
completion-styles failover mechanic, and what he thinks about it.
***
And there are occasionally configs like
(setq completion-styles
'(partial-completion substring initials basic))
;; override default completion style of specific modes
(setq completion-category-overrides
'((file (styles . (flex)))
(buffer (styles . (flex)))
(project-file (styles . (flex)))
(info-menu (styles . (flex)))))
where the override is explicitly more powerful, so we know that failover
is not desirable, just wasted CPU cycles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-26 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-07 20:27 bug#22324: 25.0.50; completion-category-defaults style doesn't override completion-styles (gets prepended instead) Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-08 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-08 12:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-08 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-08 12:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 9:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-06 1:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-06 2:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-07 1:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-07 20:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-07 22:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-09 1:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-21 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 2:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-24 9:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 2:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-25 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-26 1:43 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-01-26 2:31 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-01-26 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-26 13:49 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-01-26 17:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-26 18:59 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-01-26 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-26 23:32 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-01-27 6:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-28 2:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-28 11:54 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-01-28 16:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-28 22:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-28 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-29 1:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-28 2:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-28 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-01-28 21:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-01-28 2:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
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