bug#66948: [PATCH] Add Completion Preview mode

[Eshel Yaron via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>>>> While testing more, I noticed one strange thing,
>>>> I don't know if it's intended to work this way.
>> [...]
>>> This appears to be a general problem with `completion-in-region-mode`,
>>> that it keeps TAB bound to `completion-at-point` after a partial
>>> completion, so I don't think we should attempt to handle it in
>>> `completion-preview` specifically.
>>
>> Let me know if you think otherwise, that `completion-preview` should
>> handle this case specifically, although I'm pretty convinced that it's
>> the behavior of `completion-in-region-mode` that's not quite right here.
>
> This looks like a problem of `completion-in-region-mode` indeed.

And now that's been taken care of in Bug#67001 :)

>> Either way, I'm attaching an new patch (v3) that includes
>> `backward-delete-char-untabify` in `completion-preview-commands` to
>> provide a nicer OOTB experience for Elisp (as you suggested), along with
>> a couple of minor optimizations and documentation improvements.
>
> Let's see what Eli decides to do with your new package.

Sure.  Eli, Stefan, any further comments about this addition?


Thanks,

Eshel