Re: Is mcomplete.el still relevant?

[Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>]

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Hi Minejima,

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Minejima Yuji <yuji.minejima@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, there.
> I'm the author of mcomplete.el package which does minibuffer completion
> with prefix and substring matching.
> http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/mcomplete.el
>
> I've been away from Emacs and Elisp for several years now. But I decided to
>  come back. Back then, some people toled me that they loved mcomplete.el.
>

I have very fond memories of using mcomplete.  And I still carry it around,
although it hasn't been loaded as part of my Emacs init for some time.

Thank you for contributing your time to improve my Emacs experience!


> But time flies like an arrow, I'm not sure if it's still relevant to the
> current
> Emacs environment.
>
> Does some other package overtake its functionality? Or does Emacs no
> longer need it because it already does the same thing on its own?
>

I believe ido, which is a part of Emacs 24 has very similar functionality.
Although helm is the completion package I've settled on.

https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm

-- 
Le

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