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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10.04.2021 16:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:43:16 +0300
> >
> > We're talking about the second completion prompt, when you have picked
> > an identifier to navigate to, but there are multiple matching locations
> > to jump to.
> >
> > Right now you see an *xref* buffer in such situation, but
> > xref-show-definitions-completing-read uses completing-read (a second
> > time) instead.
>
> That could also be a large list, e.g. if I typed the name of a large
> class.

True. It's not so critical an issue (the list will be truncated), you 
just won't get the most benefit from the streamlined workflow in this case.

> What is worse, the completion candidates are displayed in a format
> very different from the one I saw before typing RET.  It's almost as
> if the completion method was switched under my feet.  Very confusing.

Perhaps if the completion method (text-expansion vs selection) was also 
switched, as is the case in my Emacs, it will be much less confusing.

And the latter method showed all options right away.