Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe a way to handle it "right" is for vertico to register an
>> `after-change-function` so as to detect also when the buffer's content is
>> modified outside of the normal commands (i.e. from a timer or process
>> filter).  It'd probably be a bit messy, tho: it wouldn't want to refresh
>> the completion list right away, but there's no "obvious" later hook to
>> use (like `post-command-hook`) so it would need to detect when there's
>> not going to be a subsequent post-command-hook (i.e. when we're in
>> a timer or similar) and then probably fire its own timer to update the
>> completion list when the current processing is done.
>> Or maybe it should use `after-change-function` to detect changes and
>> `pre-redisplay-functions` to update the list of completion.
>
> Yes, there are other hooks that could be used. I like to keep it simple as
> is and introduce nothing messy. I follow the design taken by Icomplete which
> works well.

FWIW, I'm not convinced either that the extra complexity of what
I propose is worth the trouble.


        Stefan