Re: Why not include all ELPA packages in an Emacs release?

[Daniel Mendler via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> I am not familiar with cape,
>>
>> Cape offers CAPFs, but I think one great featuzre is that you can switch
>> the CAPF function during completion with something like this in your
>> init file:
>>
>> (use-package cape
>>   :bind (:map corfu-map
>>               ("C-c p d" . cape-dabbrev)
>>               ("C-c p f" . cape-file)
>>               ("C-c p s" . cape-elisp-symbol)
>>               ("C-c p w" . ispell-completion-at-point)
>>               ("C-c p :" . cape-emoji)))
>
> I tried it out, and it doesn't seem to work that well without something
> like corfu or vertico.  Generally it seems like an example where
> "completion" is misinterpreted to mean "selection".

This is not correct. Please stop spreading misinformation like this.
Capfs like the ones from Cape can be used to complete in a stepwise
manner. Simple examples are cape-dict, cape-dabbrev or cape-file.
cape-dabbrev for example predates the builtin dabbrev-capf and works in
the same way.

Daniel