Re: Inline completion preview

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30/10/2023 19:43, Alexander Adolf wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
>
> > On 30/10/2023 14:42, Alexander Adolf wrote:
> > > > Also company works on TTY Emacs out of the box, and I think Corfu
> > > > doesn't.  More stuff to add in.
> > > Corfu works with TTY Emacs of of the box, too.
> >
> > Are you sure you don't have corfu-terminal installed?
> > [...]
>
> Quoting from the corfu readme [1]:
> ---------------------------- Begin Quote -----------------------------
> NOTE: Corfu uses child frames to show the popup and falls back to the
> default setting of the completion-in-region-function on non-graphical
> displays. If you want to use Corfu in the terminal, install the package
> corfu-terminal, which provides an alternative overlay-based display.
> ----------------------------- End Quote ------------------------------
>
> Thus, there is a fallback behaviour of corfu on TTYs, and you ar enot
> loosing any completion _semantics_ in such a case.

This is clearly not comparable behavior for terminal users.

> > > [...]
> > > Result with company:
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >          The quick brown fox jum
> > >                                 +-------------+
> > >                                 | candidate 1 |
> > >          * BIG FONT HEADING      | CANDIDATE 2    |
> > >            BIG FONT HEADING      | CANDIDATE 2    |
> > >                                 | candidate 3 |
> > >                                 | candidate 4 |
> > >                                 +-------------+
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > [...]
> >
> > You can try out this branch:
> > https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1394
> > [...]
>
> Or you could adopt the child frame technique from corfu to avoid the
> problem occurring in the first place?

The GUI-only users are free to install company-posframe, with similar 
benefits. It's not in GNU ELPA, though: still collecting the last 
copyright assignment signature.

But the aforementioned branch (PR) should also improve behavior for 
terminal users, though, where the characters can also be more than 1 
column wide (usually 2, in such case).