Re: about fido-mode

[Ergus]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 07:12:31PM +0000, andres.ramirez wrote:
> Hi. Ergus.
>
> This proposal about the defaults is a great starting point:
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> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00159.html
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Yes when I have some time I will (try to) go for it. (I am not a
prominent lisper, so It will take me a lot of time... but I have at
least two years for that ;p )

> > > > > > "Ergus" == Ergus  <spacibba@aol.com> writes:
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>
> [...]
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>    >> - ido-mode (everywhere)
>
>    Ergus> We have had some "issues" with ido support and integration with the 
> modern completion
>    Ergus> infrastructure. I am working in the default completion infrastructure 
> and icomplete/fido
>    Ergus> to improve them a bit (keeping things simple) and make "fido more 
> ido" when possible.
>
> I have had a problem with this ido based funct when testing eglot on a C source 
> file:
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> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/magnars/2360578/raw/822b60a5572ae208641f90b0e209fd93082f0153/gistfile1.el
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> Because of the issue above Joao told me "eglot works fine with fido-mode".
> I have tried it for a couple of hours (I have found below issues with fido):
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> 1. Y on dired-mode does not work. {Y runs the command
> dired-do-relsymlink}. I could not write the name of the symlink.
> 2. I could not use my aliases {I have a bunch of them}

Please give me some more details to reproduce. These two are working
fine for me.

> 3. fido vertical mode is not on pair with ido. Some vertical
> misalignment

Fido vertical is actually an external package. I am implementing an
internal alternative which is still in bared bones.

There is a branch features/icomplete-vertical that I shared with Joao to
try and improve (please don't try it yet it is WIP). 
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> Also I should mention the discussion on this bug about the completion
> mechanism (improvement of the documentation):
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> http://debbugs.gnu.org/41423
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This seems to be related with the completion backend. The big guys are
already working on that... 

> > > - helm-M-x
>    Ergus> This overlap some functionalities of ido right? Any way Helm will not 
> come to vanilla due
>    Ergus> to copyright issues...
>
> helm as ido (stated above) also does not let me use my aliases (below are a 
> couple of
> examples)
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> (defalias 'cc 'compile)
> (defalias 'rc 'recompile)
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> Best Regards