From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Mendler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simplification of `affixation-function` Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:56:36 +0200 Message-ID: <126afe1f-8ac5-69fc-f6af-a586bc354d03@daniel-mendler.de> References: <87y2d777r2.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <35e2e508-cd0a-b921-af96-9c12da92faf3@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29303"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov , Stefan Monnier , Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 25 00:57:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1laRDI-0007Vv-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:57:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54260 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1laRDH-0002eb-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2021 18:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1laRCd-0002EA-Fw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2021 18:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from server.qxqx.de ([2a01:4f8:121:346::180]:53799 helo=mail.qxqx.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1laRCb-0002i2-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2021 18:56:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=qxqx.de; s=mail1392553390; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=ReSMVuEjVFzysrtO2G7TGozZU3NaXoKllimY9QfG2zo=; b=PXZJAbFTnHOujjaXffv7HyxsPo uDXzRE2I1wgouydXvLK1m/AuV3xWbK2cjHBVBbgDxJBu50gHu1JUkJi8u6dlpKpbB4f1H63nE/SLO CkoWw7bmBVTINUzbHxH+zPxKsDWtplv/CAWUYCce6Im2Kmufool/bfXunobsqhGb7QYY=; In-Reply-To: <35e2e508-cd0a-b921-af96-9c12da92faf3@yandex.ru> Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f8:121:346::180; envelope-from=mail@daniel-mendler.de; helo=mail.qxqx.de X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:268354 Archived-At: 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