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

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:18:47 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> But this raises a more general question, of whether selecting-read and
>> completing-read should be drop-in replacements of one another.
>
> I think they should strive to, because it's conceivable that we will
> have a user option to determine which one to call where currently we
> call completing-read.

But why should that mean that both interfaces should be identical?  It
seems cleaner to instead have a sr->cr translation layer, as to prevent
unnecessary dependencies between the two interfaces?

-- 
        Philip K.