Re: Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core?

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> ivy+counsel it's a quality package that reached already noticeable
>> popularity.  Does fuzzy completion with vertical output display, and its
>> counsel-M-X shows also the command key binding (feature I consider for
>> my experience a _game changer_ for softening the learning curve).
>> Finally it's already in ELPA.
>
> 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) ;-(

I don't think anyone's suggesting enabling it by default.  But then,
given that it's already in GNU ELPA, I'm not sure what would be gained
from putting it in core, other than greater exposure to the experts on
emacs-devel and bug-gnu-emacs.

-- 
Basil