Re: [PATCH] Re: Other details about completion.

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:35:24AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> We could add a new variable or a new value to completion-auto-help
>>> to show the completions buffer on any edit.
>>
>> This will be very complex to do with the current infrastructure.  Not
>> for the show, but for the update.  I wanted to do it and it required
>> too many changes here and there... Maybe you find a better way.
>>
>> Any way.. IMHO I think that going in that direction is a bad and more
>> complex approach.  For such behavior it may be better to use
>> icomplete and similes...
>
>icomplete is based on post-command-hook, so zcomplete would need it too.
>
Sorry, not agree here. If zcomplete intention is to emulate the zsh
behavior then it is not needed to use post-command-hook. Completions are
shown on demand <tab>... post-command-hook is for a behavior more like
browsers... We already have helm, ivy, icomplete, vertico, selectrum,
ido, fido (with the vertical variants too) and all the others... I don't
think we need more of that and reinvent the well once again.

Simple in better than complicated ;)