From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Split off some backends from Company?
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:23:03 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53EC39A7.2060806@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2c3wzje.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 08/14/2014 07:07 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> I see what you mean, but why does this need another package?
>>> It seems the code could/should be in yasnippet, controlled by
>>> something like a minor-mode.
>> It could be in yasnippet, but then it would implicitly depend on Company
>> anyway.
>
> You mean it can't be a completion-at-point-function?
Not a useful one, no. Like mentioned, company-yasnippet's candidates
list not exhaustive (in terms of things, in general, that the user would
usually want to see completed), so it's won't be a good completion
function by itself.
>> Further, there is a convention in the third-party developer community of not
>> doing too much in autoloads ("installing the package shouldn't turn it on",
>> or something along these lines).
>
> That's true as well. Of course "turn it on" is not always as clear-cut
> as it sounds. Adding oneself to company-backend might be seen as "turn
> it on", but if you consider that it's only actually used if you do
> enable company and if you use the appropriate major mode (or compiler
> backend, or snippet library, ...), then you may decide that it's not
> really "turned on".
Ok, that makes sense. But anyway, the above convention is only a
secondary consideration, as far as I'm concerned.
> To the extent that ELPA packages are normally installed by the end user
> (my install.el package distinguished "system install" from "user
> install" but package.el doesn't really provide much support for
> system-wide installs, thjo it doesn't actively prevent them), I think
> it's not that bad if installing a package also turns it on.
Agreed.
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2014-08-11 19:21 Split off some backends from Company? Dmitry Gutov
[not found] ` <jwva979sonu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 1:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-13 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-14 2:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-14 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-14 4:23 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
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