Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Most completion frameworks I have looked at seem to limit themselves to
>>> the latter. To simplify, they collect all the options of a collection
>>> using all-completions and then narrow it depending on user input. Ido
>>> and all it's descendents (Ivy, Helm, Selectrum and now vertico) seem to
>>> be based on that approach.
>> I don't think that's true.
>
> I don't think the frequency of refreshing the list of candidates is what
> he was referring to, but rather the support for "TAB completion" which
> corresponds to the `(completion-)try-completion` operation which is
> expected to extract the commonality between the various candidates.

Just to confirm the point, yes, this was what I was referring
to.

-- 
        Philip K.