Re: [External] : Re: Improvement proposals for `completing-read'

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08.04.2021 20:22, Drew Adams wrote:
> > But using it only for
> > disambiguation should be okay. Then one would only compute the
> > annotation when doing the actual completion?
> No, annotations should not be used as the, or even as
> a, means of disambiguating candidates.  That would be
> an ugly and limiting hack.
>
> Annotations are user-visible.  They have their own
> use cases.  Making them take on the role of
> disambiguating candidates - and especially making
> them be_the_  means of disambiguating - would be
> misguided, IMO.

That's exactly why they are a good means of disambiguating completions: 
completions with different annotations have something for the user to 
distinguish them with.

I'm not sure about annotation auto-generation, though.