Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Ergus]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 03:34:35PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 14:16:03 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> > Cc: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > >My point is that we should not put there unimportant options, let
> > >alone those which we recommend not to change from the defaults.
> > >
> > We could add and extra optional SCREEN with advanced options. The user
> > can click next if done with the options in this page or advanced and go
> > for a more detailed and longer list of options.
>
> Once we come up with the list of options we consider important and
> useful for this target audience, we can then discuss whether the list
> is long enough to warrant splitting.
Agree

> > >Then perhaps we need to develop a new completion mechanism.  Which
> > >IDEs show completion like icomplete-mode?
> > >
> > Sublime and atom have a menu pretty similar to ours. A bit more
> > graphical oriented, but in the same "spirit".
>
> "Spirit" is not what's important here, IMO.  What's important is the
> visual appearance and the available actions and their effects.  What I
> see out there is similar to Company, and quite different from
> icomplete-mode, even when augmented by the vertical sub-mode.

We have xref-find-apropos and completion-at-point. But icomplete use is
totally different to company.

icomplete is more a minibuffer completion engine useful while tipping
commands, of lookign for files. There a company panel is uncomfortable.

While company-mode is a "suggestion menu" while editing. Maybe our error
have been to consider both as a single "feature".

Dimitry is the "company boss" ;) if you want it by default I don't think
anyone will have complains about as company is in general very popular.

Most external popular completions engines like LSP support company throw
company-capf or completion-at-point.

What's do you think is better to invest time improving the
completion-at-point or port Company to vanilla?