From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs completion matches selection UI Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:54:03 +0100 Message-ID: <528A7E6B.4010703@online.de> References: <87fvqtg02v.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384807886 29319 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2013 20:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:51:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 21:51:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVn8-0005Ic-N8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:51:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVn8-0001AG-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVmx-00018d-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:51:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVmq-00045D-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:49879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVmq-00044P-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba04ea.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.4.234]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Llco8-1V9S1731Iu-00ZMPj; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:51:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:XTsu63E2WkQ8wERHyFn7YhntNHcz9yuGjQd6BPYsHBx 69OzDaxxQqfqQhSQD3B/suL7I3OkYsvKJdpZghQRGe09iooP30 d9QSPGJuoLX6xZQq/5ckXhTBTyAVrGNwkVPDwoQ6gbbA6Or42Y 6PbX51kf18R7Zr/tYdjm0B1Xmnjt4eVNhNjtXtN30C0eyME/tC SolSvpjGrtonVKfKVCL/hiJ5jTkdr2zAX3CH0y39A9Hxo1P2il Qa074ZODUU+kVGUWmlnSQR88Zh1WSzbgFFn6hnbXYKIk0oUGEu n+rr3anHBjwdmPQcWbXWX1wDJ7E9I6wd5R8Ov6VlB5Sl5gvKzo pe528L0bSz+0FsXBfpqU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165342 Archived-At: Am 18.11.2013 21:00, schrieb Bozhidar Batsov: > Unlike auto-complete-mode, Emacs's default completion system is rock-solid. > :-) auto-complete uses some pretty messed up popup display library that > doesn't play well with many packages. company-mode is much better in this > regard. > > I guess I'm so used to the default completion system that I don't see it as > something primitive and hard to work with. That said, it might not be a bad > idea to include a "more modern" completion system in Emacs itself, but I'd > opt for simplicity and reliability over fancy UIs. > +1