From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scratch/backend-completion 9a62da21c2 1/2: Integrate Stefan suggestions but rename it to "external-completion.el"
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 19:31:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo7skyqa0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDnm50TCnaRMNuA8fK2v4NneB7fD6Yo-r62jHaWWX36cEnRSQ@mail.gmail.com> ("João Távora"'s message of "Sat, 3 Dec 2022 23:36:01 +0000")
>> > +TRY-COMPLETION-FUNCTION is an poorly understood implementation detail.
>>
>> Not at all. It's a functionality that only makes sense for some UIs
>> (not those based on the idea of selecting among a set of choices), and
>> it tends to work better with more "primitive" completion styles (it
>> asymptotically becomes useless the harder the completion style tries to
>> find completions).
>
> I'm still confused, I need examples to understand this stuff, and I'm afraid
E.g. for the completion table of ELisp commands the `try-completion` for
the `partial-completion` style of "r-bu" might be "re-bu" because all
the completion candidates of "r-bu" have an "e" right after the "r", so
"re-bu" selects exactly the same set of candidates. Similarly for
"di-hu" it may return "diff-hunk" because all the candidates have "ff"
after the "di" and "nk" after the "-hu".
This is the standard "TAB completion" behavior: instead of asking you to
*select* a candidate it "types the text for you" (hence the name
"completion") without trying to guess which candidate you're going to go
for: its only "guess" is that your goal is somewhere among
the candidates.
For prefix completion, it works great.
For completion styles like `flex`, it's rarely able to complete anything.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-04 0:31 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <167007345844.23701.8454474119701440468@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20221203131739.3FCF9C004BE@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-12-03 14:10 ` scratch/backend-completion aaaa016056 2/2: Speed it up Stefan Monnier
2022-12-03 23:30 ` João Távora
2022-12-04 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-04 11:11 ` João Távora
[not found] ` <20221203131739.2A601C004BA@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-12-03 14:26 ` scratch/backend-completion 9a62da21c2 1/2: Integrate Stefan suggestions but rename it to "external-completion.el" Stefan Monnier
2022-12-03 23:36 ` João Távora
2022-12-04 0:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-12-04 10:02 ` João Távora
2022-12-04 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-04 20:04 ` João Távora
2022-12-06 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-07 11:09 ` João Távora
2022-12-07 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-07 19:09 ` João Távora
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