Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Ergus]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 05:36:14PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:17:58 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> > Cc: ghe@sdf.org, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > >We are miscommunicating.  I said "similar to Company", meaning that
> > >the completion drops down a vertical list of candidates that overlays
> > >the rest of the display.  AFAIK, no existing completion package offers
> > >something similar.
> >
> > Sorry to bother with this. But I don't see how what you describe defers
> > from Company. I mean, what is missing in company or what is different
> > from your desired behavior?
>
> Didn't yourself say that Company is not for completion in the
> minibuffer?  Whereas we are discussing minibuffer completion?
>
> > I agree that company needs some work, maybe check the bindings and the
> > default colors.
>
> If Company can be used for minibuffer completion, then there's no
> problem.
>
> > icomplete is the best we have embedded.
>
> Maybe our best is not good enough in this case?  In which case, if we
> want to offer newcomers an experience that they expect, we need to
> implement something which we don't yet have.
Eli:

Looking deeper into this, either posframe and ivy are already in
elpa. We only need to add ivy-posframe to elpa. There is also a
which-key-posframe and even a company-posframe. So we have the whole set
of featured you want.

WDYT? Add all this to vanila :\?