Re: [ANNOUNCE] mailaprop: modern popup-style autofill for email addresses

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

I wrote:
>Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>Looks very nice...  but the main difference between this and ecomplete
>>seems to be that ecomplete puts the completions in the echo area and
>>mailaprop uses a tooltip?
>
>Hmm, I can't tell.  As of commit 9f22b7d2, ecomplete.el has no function doc >strings nor any usage-informing variable doc strings, and the format of >~/.ecompleterc is not documented.  From looking at the elisp file, I wasn't >immediately sure what ecomplete does :-).  I grepped around and found this in >doc/misc/message.texi: [...]

Sorry, Lars.  I think my tone of voice was a little off there!  ecomplete looks great -- I was glad you pointed me to it, and mostly wished that I had found it earlier (say, before I wrote mailaprop, ahem).

I confess I got a little frustrated when I looked at the ecomplete.el source code, and that frustration is what came out in my original reply.  The code itself was very clean & readable.  But I was hungry to know the format and semantics of ~/.ecompleterc, and to know the exact completion behavior, because because then I would know whether mailaprop should continue on its own, or whether I should focus on using (and maybe extending) ecomplete.

Best regards,
-Karl