Re: company 0.2.1 -- extensible inline text completion mechanism

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Richard Riley <address@hidden> wrote:

> How do you see this competing with auto-complete which completes pretty
> much anything?

Like auto-complete, this is a front-end.
You can probably bend back-ends for either to work in the other.  In
fact company mode is designed for self-contained exchangable back-ends.

So the question really isn't which one can complete "more".

I consider some of the back-ends in company to be more sophisticated
than what I've seen in auto-complete (Emacs Lisp, CSS, ...), though.  I
certainly wouldn't mind working on back-end compatibility.

It is unfortunate that there now are two packages out there doing mostly
the same thing.  Most of my work on company predates auto-complete
significantly, but I didn't have the time to work on it for a while.
Too bad that was reason enough for someone to duplicate the work.



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher