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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:43:16 +0300
> 
> We're talking about the second completion prompt, when you have picked 
> an identifier to navigate to, but there are multiple matching locations 
> to jump to.
> 
> Right now you see an *xref* buffer in such situation, but 
> xref-show-definitions-completing-read uses completing-read (a second 
> time) instead.

That could also be a large list, e.g. if I typed the name of a large
class.

What is worse, the completion candidates are displayed in a format
very different from the one I saw before typing RET.  It's almost as
if the completion method was switched under my feet.  Very confusing.