From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T.V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: completion.el users? Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 10:54:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368467692 6022 80.91.229.3 (13 May 2013 17:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 17:54:52 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 19:54:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UbwxU-0006wO-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:54:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbwxU-00085X-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbwxQ-00085F-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbwxN-0004At-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ve0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c01::236]:61551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UbwxN-0004Ah-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ve0-f182.google.com with SMTP id da11so4574735veb.27 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 10:54:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xMAG9KIzH+Dpd/SPk6UUUHGhV7kc0R0JzolXZeGWIXI=; b=PxvLHbF6Up2YrAM0c8xaz1J5gr2MSwJesexeAvqfRISK3mcxdEZpF6EEH8G9TvTz7n Aj7qfXzQFi5vpL+zLb52vNX+itEXKbNfHn2NVIyAR09IZgiDaz9hSdiH6W0b7VYLY8Iz YBQp+WqHSezNUdIaYdDxkxGfognuCpCZDDNu3u8EvDnxCtII5wvjd1ZNcki9SELh4Jo0 JVuFFLyChYxP1ZJjLp/eKYj+hcHWU2cKoA4TWGRG/2pE7CkWUEjsj7zsMF1D4hDuP2vI CY91d5ilZZv8rzlTSFylfcXGNIdf4ohr+0sWgWwdfLMYZaxYBYN3hGlz4SSfy93tZAdD zYVQ== X-Received: by 10.59.9.39 with SMTP id dp7mr19326013ved.36.1368467680922; Mon, 13 May 2013 10:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.58.234.37 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 10:54:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159546 Archived-At: The two things that completion.el does that no other package to my knowledge does:(I still remember it as tmc-completion)which is what it ws called when I first started using it: 1. Remembers ocmpletions you've used recently. 2. Loads completions from a tags table -- I've not used it heavily recently, but it would be nice to get that feature in emacs' dabbrev or other packages before we declare completion.el obsolete. -- Best Regards, --raman On 5/10/13, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm wondering what's the status of completion.el. > It's been with us for a long time, but the last non-cosmetic patch for > it was made in 2007, which seems surprisingly long for a 90KB file. > > I also have some reservations w.r.t to this file because it uses the > "completion-" prefix which I'd rather use for the meaning of "TAB > completion", and because it is not very namespace-clean (uses various > prefixes plus several non-prefixed functions). > > IOW, I'd be happy to declare it obsolete. > > > Stefan > >