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Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatica


From: Theodor Thornhill
Subject: Re: master f6967d2 1/3: Allow for the completion buffer to be automatically selected
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:30:48 +0100

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

>
> Many people prefer to use a selection workflow for the minibuffer, yes,
> the popularity of packages like ivy, selectrum, ido, icicles, helm,
> etc. speak for itself.  But on master the implemented solution was more
> or less an intermediate one where the completion list was not shown
> automatically and the results were not filtered "on the fly".  IMO, that
> kind of intermediate solution doesn't help much to attract people used
> to that kind of workflow from other applications/Emacs packages, and
> only annoy people used to vanilla completion.
>

Right, I see your point.

> Another experiment that might be more successful is to enable an ELPA
> package like mct[1] by default, and offer a single option to revert to
> the default minibuffer behavior, for people used to vanilla completion.
>

I actually use mct, and have for a while.  I like that it is not as
intrusive as the other projects.




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