Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>     It works for me because I have rewritten all of the completion code in
>     Elisp, but doing it piecewise seems difficult.

> Moving all the completion code into Lisp could be a good idea.
> Speed is mostly not crucial there.

> How much of a slowdown does this cause for try-completions?
> Would this be unpleasant on slow computers?

Oh, no, all-completions and try-completions are still in C.  I don't think
it's a good idea to move them to elisp for now.
But the rest can be moved just fine: it's not speed critical.


        Stefan