Re: [PATCH] (icomplete-vertical-mode): Add support for affixations and, annotations

[João Távora]

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

>> With the existing function 'display-sort-function' you can easily
>> add new elements to the list of completions or remove the existing
>> candidates.  And that is not a problem in practice.
> Indeed.  I think we should aim for an API that's easy to use correctly.
> If it makes incorrect uses difficult, that's good, but that shouldn't be
> the driving goal.

I see, broken windows.  You keep asking for good API's but when things
are proposed in that direction "that's good" but doesn't matter.

I'm not exactly a fan of d-s-f, but likelyhood that it messes up is less
since it's likely called unconditionally on all returned completions by
the frontend.  Indeed I wonder why d-s-f exists at all.

As to the current shape affixation-function, I'm not mortally against it
just that its misdesign is a bit jarring, but so are so many other parts
of the completion system, so I guess, broken windows.  It's just that
this is supposed to be a new part.

João