From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,
"Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core?
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:12:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2f9a36d-9aed-aa87-0bf1-ad66b8eb7f7a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200913212657.va372qd2oeo3jds3@Ergus>
On 9/13/20 11:26 PM, Ergus wrote:
> 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.
I'm eager to solve the problems with completion tables. Some of them
should already be solved.
If there was a bug report with a reproducible scenario, that would make
things move faster.
Oleh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-13 18:53 Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core? Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-13 19:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-13 20:13 ` arthur miller
2020-09-13 20:25 ` ej32u--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-13 20:32 ` Doug Davis
2020-09-13 21:00 ` arthur miller
2020-09-13 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-13 21:26 ` Ergus
2020-09-14 6:15 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-14 11:12 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
2020-11-05 0:31 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-11-05 0:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-09-13 21:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-14 11:09 ` Oleh Krehel
2020-09-14 22:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-14 11:16 ` Oleh Krehel
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2020-09-14 2:36 Jai Flack
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