Re: problems configuring company-mode for auto completion key banding

[Krishnakant <krmane@openmailbox.org>]

Hi and thank you for your help.



On Monday 13 February 2017 08:32 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Hi Krishnakant,
>
> On 13.02.2017 07:14, Krishnakant wrote:
>
>> The problem is that although default auto completion behavior  is 
>> perfectly good for sighted users, for me it is too much speech.
>
> That's understandable. Since you are a blink user, though, I'm not 
> sure if you can really benefit from the popup-like UI.
>
I can certainly use the dropdown because I choose from the list using 
arrow keys.  All I need is that it happens one only when I want it.
> Maybe try and see if C-M-i works as well for you, and if it doesn't, 
> request that elpy integrates with completion-at-point-functions.
>
>> So what I was trying to do is to set company-mode not to auto 
>> complete automatically.
>
> The variable that controls it is company-idle-delay. Try:
>
> (setq company-idle-delay nil)
>
Where should I have it?
Should I put it just any where in my .init.el file?
> You can find all the customization variables by typing 'M-x 
> customize-group RET company'.
>
>> Note that I am very new to setting such things in Emacs.
>> So I have to manauly start python-mode when I open a .py file. I am 
>> aware this is not correct but can't see what's wrong.
>
> Emacs should enter python-mode by default in .py files. If it doesn't, 
> what major mode does it use? You can find out by evaluating 
> 'major-mode'. Press M-: to evaluate an expression.
>
Yes I will do that.
Thanks a million.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.