I wrote: >Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> writes: >>Looks very nice... but the main difference between this and ecomplete >>seems to be that ecomplete puts the completions in the echo area and >>mailaprop uses a tooltip? > >Hmm, I can't tell. As of commit 9f22b7d2, ecomplete.el has no function doc >>strings nor any usage-informing variable doc strings, and the format of >>~/.ecompleterc is not documented. From looking at the elisp file, I wasn't >>immediately sure what ecomplete does :-). I grepped around and found this in >>doc/misc/message.texi: [...]
Sorry, Lars. I think my tone of voice was a little off there! ecomplete looks great -- I was glad you pointed me to it, and mostly wished that I had found it earlier (say, before I wrote mailaprop, ahem). I confess I got a little frustrated when I looked at the ecomplete.el source code, and that frustration is what came out in my original reply. The code itself was very clean & readable. But I was hungry to know the format and semantics of ~/.ecompleterc, and to know the exact completion behavior, because because then I would know whether mailaprop should continue on its own, or whether I should focus on using (and maybe extending) ecomplete. Best regards, -Karl
