From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] (icomplete-vertical-mode): Add support for affixations and, annotations Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 02:42:21 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87czthnhne.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <87zgwlb4xc.fsf@gmail.com> <617d06ca-27bf-2ae8-26eb-1042123499d3@daniel-mendler.de> <87pmxhb1rs.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24861"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Daniel Mendler , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 01:51:52 2021 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 1lkxsu-0006GX-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 May 2021 01:51:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48102 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkxss-0008DD-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 19:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkxpt-0003e6-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 19:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:18673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkxpr-0006Vm-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 19:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7FCE7240003; Sun, 23 May 2021 23:48:37 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Mon, 24 May 2021 01:42:26 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.193; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay1-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269724 Archived-At: >> But I don't understand why these decision should be done in the data >> backend. The backedn should only annotate a completion with a possible >> _hint_ on how to layout ("prefix" and "suffix" are hints). It's the >> frontend, who is who knows what to display and where, who should be >> responsible for the layout. > > I've made some similar arguments in a recent thread: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-04/msg01320.html And later your reply was that annotation-function is the old approach, and that the default completion frontend still doesn't use :company-kind. Any plans to add support for :company-kind to the default frontend?