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Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> icomplete-mode (and its derivatives) doesn't work for in-buffer
>> completion.  Also, it is buggier than the default completion scheme.
>
> Actually, now icomplete-mode supports in-buffer completion quite well.

Oh, neat!  I knew there was icomplete-in-buffer but I see that it's been
much improved recently.

>> By asynchronous completion, I just mean being able to type, and trigger
>> completion, and have completions appear incrementally as they are
>> computed, without interfering with you continuing to type.  I don't
>> think that stops immediate feedback for typing.
>
> I believe this is achievable by just wrapping code with while-no-input.

Indeed.