Emacs 30: Completion Preview Feedback

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, this is just a little unsolicited user feedback on the Completion Preview 
feature — not meant to be demanding or anything like that.

I think CP is a cool feature, but in the default settings, CP will give a 
preview even if I have already typed out something that matches, and I find 
that unnecessarily and frequently distracting. For example, if I type "(mapc", 
it will give a preview for "(mapcan".

Ideally what I'd like is if the current word already matches something, then 
there is no preview given.

I set "Completion Preview Exact Match Only" to "on" and that gives me pretty 
much what I want, since that eliminates the distracting extra previews. A trade 
off is I don't get any previews for "possible" matches, which could 
potentionally be useful.

I could I suppose also use an Idle Delay, but personally I hate introducing 
extra pauses like that into my workflow.

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📛 Christopher Howard
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