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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.06.2021 16:16, João Távora wrote:

> I wonder how many people are still actually using ido today.  It
> used to be extremely popular, I used it for ages.

Still fairly popular, though the newer completion frameworks have 
popularized different bindings, alas.

> > Simpler mental model, a guarantee of no "inconsistent" display, I
> > suppose. But the flicking is real annoying, it's one of the things that
> > has stopped my from migrating to fido-mode (somewhat lower performance
> > is the other).

By the way, another thing I'm kind of missing is different faces. One 
for input, and another for directories in the completions list.

That's less critical, though.

> Are you using ido-enable-flex-matching?

Sure. Also see bug#12796.

> If there's still a performance discrepancy, maybe a controlled benchmark
> is in order.

I've filed bug#48841 with some details.

It's apples to oranges, of course (Ido doesn't do any "smart" sorting), 
but what can we do.

> > where "ico" is input. If I backspace and type "o" again, there will be
> > an interval of time when two "o" will be shown. That looks kinda weird,
> > but probably still better than having it blink. Hopefully, this behavior
> > could still be improved, though.
>
> I'm fine if you fix this and fine if you leave it. Personally, I've switched to
> fido-mode +  fido-vertical-mode  which doesn't do the [mplete.el] dance.

The new icomplete-vertical-mode is pretty nice, but ivy-posframe still 
kicks it out of the park for my usage.

> Personally I'm  also fine to remove this complexity altogether, even for
> non-vertical Icomplete/Fido, but I think at least Stefan likes it (possibly
> others, but no record thereof).

Yeah, removing features is hard.