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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 06:37:08 -0500
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, 
>       dgutov@yandex.ru
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> > Right away, i.e. even without the user typing anything? that'd produce
> >> > a huge list of candidates, which would be impractical to display.
> >> This is what e.g. ivy does on M-x, and it works well in practice.
> >>
> >> I find it much better to display candidates this way, and I think it
> >> would be a step forward if Emacs dit this itself OOTB.
> >
> > For me, it would be a step back.  I never use completion for
> > discovery, I always have a pretty good idea what I'm about to type
> > when I do.
> 
> The fact that this UI paradigm is so ubiquitous suggests that you might
> be in the minority here.

Am I supposed to be ashamed to be in the minority?

This isn't a "majority wins" situation.  A minority (if it is a
minority) that's used to do stuff the old ways shouldn't be ignored.