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Location : parse_addr6(), p0f-client.c:67 X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::434 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248431 Archived-At: On 02.05.2020 09:29, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > IMNSHO, we should first develop the infrastructure for such "smart" > presentation of completion candidates and make it our default > completion strategy, How would that look, in your opinion? > and only after that consider changes, like the > proposed "namespacing" of APIs, that will allow users to use > completion as a substitute for Help commands. Namespacing of APIs is a step that should help the users with the current default completion strategy. > It is IMO a bad idea to > flood the completion lists with many dozens of candidates and force > users to wade through them. I certainly wouldn't call that "progress" > for Emacs. Is that what fido-mode does? People seem to like it.