Re: Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core?

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:

> On 9/13/20 11:26 PM, Ergus wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 04:36:13PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Last I heard Ivy still had problems with some completion tables (IIRC
>>> with those completion tables that return non-trivial values from
>>> `completion-boundaries`, such as the completion table used for
>>> filenames, tho there might be other issues such as the support for
>>> unquote/requote).  If that's still the case (it was several years ago),
>>> then enabling Ivy by default would either introduce regressions when
>>> completing against such completion tables, or would force us to use
>>> 2 different UIs (the Ivy one where it works well, as some other UI for
>>> those other cases) ;-(
>>>
>>>
>>>        Stefan
>>>
>> An important part of ivy was re-implemented the last year to simplify
>> and unify some interfaces and many errors were corrected.
>>
>> I use ivy since 4 years ago with not big issues for the moment (When I
>> have them I have reported and they have been solved almost immediately).
>> But it needs some improve before becoming part of vanilla.
>>
>> It would be very nice if you comment/report/ask that to Abo-Abo. To get
>> an update of the current status.
>
> I'm eager to solve the problems with completion tables. Some of them should
> already be solved.
>
> If there was a bug report with a reproducible scenario, that would make things
> move faster.

See e.g. https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper/issues/1597 for an issue with
programmed completion.

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Basil