Re: Simplification of `affixation-function`

[Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>]

On 4/25/21 12:48 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 25.04.2021 01:34, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> because internally it depends on the predefined order of elements:
>>> “completion + suffix” or “completion + prefix + suffix”.
>>> There is no backward-compatible way to change this order.
>> We don't need to worry about backward compatibility here since this
>> functionality has not yet been included in any released Emacs.
> 
> Speaking of not being able to change it after the release, am I right to 
> assume that this feature's main target is completing-read and not 
> completion-at-point-functions?

I support affixation-functions in my small Corfu package, which shows 
overlay popups like Company. However the result will not be good if the 
affixation-functions return long suffix strings and are written with the 
*Completions* buffer in mind.

Daniel