William Xu wrote:
Toby Cubitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Auto-completion-mode is only useful when the function finding the
completions can return results within a few tenths of a second
(i.e. faster than your typing speed). Dabbrev was never designed to be
that fast.
Hm, then this probably shouldn't be the first example on the wiki. Or it
will fear away new users.
Completion-UI is a lisp package for package writers, not users. The
examples are there to help package writers learn how to make use of it.
The default settings are fairly sensible, with auto-completion-mode off
by default. The Wiki is editable: if you think it's misleading, then
change it!
The only completion functions I'm aware of that were designed to be fast
enough are those in the predictive-mode and pabbrev packages. Perhaps
this is because auto-completion makes most sense when the completion is
predictive.
pabbrev is really very fast and impressive ! And its interface is nice,
SPC as normal, TAB for completing/cycling candicates. This way pabbrev
does its best not to interfere normal typing.
In contrast, in predictive-mode, SPC does the completing, which makes it
rather diffcult for blindly typing, i.e., fast typing.
..until your fingers get used to it, at which point typing becomes both
faster (since you have to hit less keys) and more accurate (since the
dictionaries only contain correct spellings). But these are just the
default key bindings. If you don't like them, change them! This is Emacs
we're talking about here ;-)
If you don't want to spend any time reading documentation and
customization options before you can get the most out of predictive
completion, I strongly recommend you use pabbrev. Predictive-mode is an
ambitious, complex, highly customizable package that does a lot more
than just predictive completion. Pabbrev is simpler, less ambitious, and
much easier to use straight away.
Toby
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