Re: Emacs completion improvement

Pierre Radermecker <[email protected]> writes:

>> Yes, SLIME-like completion would definitely be a nice enhancement for
>> distel. It wasn't clear from your post whether this was something you
>> were working on or just a suggested enhancement.
>
> I am not working on it ... I could consider trying to improve the way completion
> work in Distel but first I'd like to be sure it is indeed a good idea ... I have
> no real knowledge of elisp so it could take me a while to figure it out.
>
> Maybe this kind of improvement has been considered before ? Maybe there are good
> reasons why it is so basic ... 
>
> Because Luke wrote both Slime and Distel, I was wondering why it doesn't work in
> Distel the way it works in Slime ...

There are multiple completion mechanisms in SLIME and Luke didn't
write them all. I presume he was either happy with the way completion
worked in distel or was waiting for a volunteer who would do something
about it. ;-)

- Bill


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