Re: Stepping Back: A Wealth Of Completion systems Re: [ELPA] New package: vertico

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05.04.2021 23:49, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Most completion frameworks I have looked at seem to limit themselves to
> the latter. To simplify, they collect all the options of a collection
> using all-completions and then narrow it depending on user input. Ido
> and all it's descendents (Ivy, Helm, Selectrum and now vertico) seem to
> be based on that approach.

I don't think that's true.

I mean, the "plain" Ido does do that, and that limits its applicability 
to a select number of commands. ido-completing-read+, however, makes an 
effort to periodically refresh the collection obtained that way.

The rest, AFAIK, do it correctly right away, dynamically refreshing the 
matches after every user input.