From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ergus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core? 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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:255578 Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 04:36:13PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> ivy+counsel it's a quality package that reached already noticeable >> popularity. Does fuzzy completion with vertical output display, and its >> counsel-M-X shows also the command key binding (feature I consider for >> my experience a _game changer_ for softening the learning curve). >> Finally it's already in ELPA. > >Last I heard Ivy still had problems with some completion tables (IIRC >with those completion tables that return non-trivial values from >`completion-boundaries`, such as the completion table used for >filenames, tho there might be other issues such as the support for >unquote/requote). If that's still the case (it was several years ago), >then enabling Ivy by default would either introduce regressions when >completing against such completion tables, or would force us to use >2 different UIs (the Ivy one where it works well, as some other UI for >those other cases) ;-( > > > Stefan > An important part of ivy was re-implemented the last year to simplify and unify some interfaces and many errors were corrected. I use ivy since 4 years ago with not big issues for the moment (When I have them I have reported and they have been solved almost immediately). But it needs some improve before becoming part of vanilla. It would be very nice if you comment/report/ask that to Abo-Abo. To get an update of the current status. FTM I will refer him to this email.