From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing completion sources to customize completion display Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:04:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83jzq5bnvc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831qcghn52.fsf@gnu.org> <08c7660f-ee16-7159-581c-c8b2526a6035@gmail.com> <83il5rfwps.fsf@gnu.org> <7ac85e70-74cb-6a75-3188-9873ecd6b6ee@gutov.dev> <87jzq5ivlk.fsf@catern.com> <2e9b4c54-b81b-d04a-3c24-9c33545f8458@gutov.dev> <83o7fhbqj7.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6873"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 21:06:27 2023 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 1r6yv2-0001Yt-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:06:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6yuA-0003bd-Rq; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6yu8-0003bC-Ap for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6yu5-0006F9-Cy; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 15:05:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ohZIasDvy22JalV/v5g7ELzHbTPtO1vmswoOBTyPqNg=; b=jUG+b9MgjR5N C6vie0WVchllG/UmwOeWEr0MoX1g3rKE8Xwa2t+NcCEWyJLxYx484m2t6ByhkvtS3OUxtAr0CJg5c +DSuWzP24v8sxlawE6vknBcpS3JW+dloGD1PGxs3Z4Yzmtu4lLtpKKWfzy8Y5Ul7tY00KikC3oS4p 3Hepxp2p2IyRVvc7g1CZKH3fYMBPyIuCnA0aOOQcj4LMaHS5IC/5+FhDzp3H0aRZe8DidnkRLUSPa isaWri2phDOVgAIUMpyV10/LcpYn+mV0CCQN9I8oIv7wwUnPliyQyt24tKaXEZjaJSRoq8i/AdLXo Rma8D/0JVKMlc0zvWT3/qw==; In-Reply-To: (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:08:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313224 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:08:20 +0200 > Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > > On 25/11/2023 21:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:27:51 +0200 > >> From: Dmitry Gutov > >> > >> I hadn't considered company-mode in that context, but the preview > >> frontend in there should look more or less like the "Completion Preview" > >> feature proposed (or recently added?) to the core. > > It is possible that providing an in-buffer preview for multi-line > > completions makes no sense, and we shouldn't even try. If the > > solutions are to show the preview in a separate window, then how is > > this different from popping up the*Completions* buffer? > > I think when we say "preview", we usually mean "inline preview". Not > separate window. AFAIR, one of the proposals for handling the preview of multi-line candidates was to show a special buffer (supposedly, in a window, how else?).