From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Christopher Schmidt'" <christopher@ristopher.com>,
<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: completion.el users?
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 15:20:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42816EE7BBEB446996A1D36214A8E3F7@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2sxuq6v@ch.ristopher.com>
Christopher, you repeat your points:
1. completion.el is not used as much as auto-complete-mode.
2. auto-complete-mode is superior to completion.el.
I repeat mine:
1. auto-complete-mode is not part of Emacs. I am not against adding it.
Hurrahing a-c-m does not require denigrating completion.el.
2. a-c-m does not yet do what completion.el does, AFAICT. So far, they appear
to be complementary.
3. completion.el currently serves a purpose, even if the number of users is not
great.
4. completion.el does not require a lot of maintenance to keep it in its present
state. No one is asking for added doc, or even a code cleanup (both of which
might be welcome). Just leave it alone and let people use it until Emacs can
offer something better.
5. If a-c-m is enhanced to do what completion.el does (good), and if a-c-m is
added to Emacs (good), then completion.el would effectively be obsolete and
could be deprecated. Until then it is not obsolete, regardless of how many
users it has relative to a-c-m.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-11 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 19:44 completion.el users? Stefan Monnier
2013-05-10 20:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 12:10 ` Richard Stallman
2013-05-11 14:11 ` Vibhav Pant
2013-05-11 14:23 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 15:15 ` Vibhav Pant
2013-05-11 15:09 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-05-11 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 16:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-11 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 18:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-05-11 19:33 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 19:24 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-05-11 21:16 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-11 22:05 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-05-11 22:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-05-12 9:09 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-13 17:57 ` T.V. Raman
2013-05-13 17:54 ` T.V. Raman
2013-05-13 18:09 ` Lluís
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