Re: company 0.2.1 -- extensible inline text completion mechanism

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Toby Cubitt <address@hidden> wrote:

> There's also Completion-UI (which I believe is also quite a bit older than
> both the others, though I could be wrong).

Not that much.  If you remember, I submitted a patch for one of the
earlier versions, right before I worked on company.  The reason was that
I came up with the overlay-based tooltip, because regular tooltips were
(are) too slow on my system.  At that time CompletionUI didn't seem
stable (and fast)  enough for the amount of stuff I wanted to change.

> The Completion-UI completion sources (or "back-ends") are also fully
> modular, and Henry Weller has sent me code that hooks company-mode
> back-ends into Completion-UI, which I will include in the next release.

Great.  I guess that proves I did a good job at the interface.  ;)

I would love to have a standardized interface, though.  That would be a
good place to start.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher