From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing completion sources to customize completion display Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:07:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83o7fhbqj7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831qcghn52.fsf@gnu.org> <08c7660f-ee16-7159-581c-c8b2526a6035@gmail.com> <83il5rfwps.fsf@gnu.org> <7ac85e70-74cb-6a75-3188-9873ecd6b6ee@gutov.dev> <87jzq5ivlk.fsf@catern.com> <2e9b4c54-b81b-d04a-3c24-9c33545f8458@gutov.dev> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9221"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 20:08:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r6y12-0002DE-0c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:08:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6y0D-0001M8-Mv; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:07:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6y0C-0001M0-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:07:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r6y0B-0004ot-Jh; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:07:39 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=VwFExbzKd7kQWI7wPEERUUmZouhAneDIVZ8Er09+Sfk=; b=QVTL5coMA4y1 W9laBRk4OBX/WHyi5g87LiMdHQVVEAXm8xEiDqrGUPXOriU2Qg19AfcUtyFNMOYySK2mbCY/qiXvO r248FJn+zBEWJkIjrTBeZxIW0vQWS9Xex9+fC3rJ31q7rVCv4msbm6XcVD7sHcW/Ipwgno5En+TME MJ+HTRpW1Tk4zvvigtMzsZcpSMrhuD0NIF+UTa0FiMxxjm81M5LpotNCbTWr64nvUcOdrbpb2cR4n j93TEEWB0pN6UwWF/UiGFKmHPBc+azrHvorBR2ELc88mBAILIa+cCUdouVX0RfOLNWz1JLfM59aNk hY+J4TXPLj6UwxmJkBYlyg==; In-Reply-To: <2e9b4c54-b81b-d04a-3c24-9c33545f8458@gutov.dev> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:27:51 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313222 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:27:51 +0200 > From: Dmitry Gutov > > I hadn't considered company-mode in that context, but the preview > frontend in there should look more or less like the "Completion Preview" > feature proposed (or recently added?) to the core. It is possible that providing an in-buffer preview for multi-line completions makes no sense, and we shouldn't even try. If the solutions are to show the preview in a separate window, then how is this different from popping up the *Completions* buffer?