From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Split off some backends from Company?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:38:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvha1gr2kq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EAC60F.6030104@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:57:35 +0400")
> Doing that with company-bbdb would be hard, but looks like it'll be obsolete
> as soon as `message-completion-function' starts behaving correctly:
> `message-expand-name-databases' includes `bbdb' by default.
Oh, right, I had forgotten about that one.
>>> Maybe also company-yasnippet.
>> Same here.
> Probably not: using yasnippet as a completion source is a questionable
> decision, which each user should make themselves. It replaces the advertised
> way to interact with yasnippet (type the snippet key, press TAB), and the
> recommended way to use this backend is to group it with others, not by
> itself (think `completion-table-merge' instead of
> `completion-table-in-turn'), so putting it in
> `completion-at-point-functions' would probably be misguided.
I see what you mean, but why does this need another package?
It seems the code could/should be in yasnippet, controlled by
something like a minor-mode.
> Hmm, yes. I guess we could do that if the user explicitly
> installed a backend package.
I think it's "should" rather than "could", because it's important for
the installation to be as straightforward as possible.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-13 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-11 19:21 Split off some backends from Company? Dmitry Gutov
[not found] ` <jwva979sonu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-13 1:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-13 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-08-14 2:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-08-14 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-14 4:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
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