Version 1.0.2 of package Company has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Company describes itself as: ================================= Modular text completion framework ================================= More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/company.html ## Summary: Company is a modular completion framework. Modules for retrieving completion candidates are called backends, modules for displaying them are frontends. Company comes with many backends, e.g. `company-etags'. These are distributed in separate files and can be used individually. Enable `company-mode' in all buffers with M-x global-company-mode. For further information look at the documentation for `company-mode' (C-h f company-mode RET). If you want to start a specific backend, call it interactively or use `company-begin-backend'. For example: M-x company-abbrev will prompt for and insert an abbrev. To write your own backend, look at the documentation for `company-backends'. Here is a simple example completing "foo": (defun company-my-backend (command &optional arg &rest ignored) ## Recent NEWS: # History of user-visible changes # 2024-09-23 (1.0.2) * More reliable cache expiration (at the beginning of completion). # 2024-09-21 (1.0.1) * Fix for failover from a backend group to the next backend. # 2024-09-21 (1.0.0) * `company-complete-common` now performs generalized [expand common part](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1488) completion when the backend supports that. In particular, for `completion-at-point-functions` it queries `completion-try-completion`. `company-dabbrev-code` and `company-etags` also do that when `completion-styles` support is enabled. * `company-dabbrev-other-buffers` and `company-dabbrev-code-other-buffers` can now take a function as its value (#[1485](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1485)) * Completion works in the middle of a symbol (#[1474](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1474)). * New user option `company-inhibit-inside-symbols`. Set it to `t` to switch closer to the previous behavior. * Improved behavior when user types new character while completion is being computed: better performance, less blinking (in the rare cases when it still happened). This affects native async backends and is opt-in with `company-capf`. * For that, `company-capf` supports interrupting computation on new user input. Completion functions that want to take advantage of this behavior should include `:company-use-while-no-input t` in the returned properties. * `company-elisp` has been removed. It's not needed since Emacs 24.4, with all of its features having been incorporated into the built-in Elisp completion. * `company-files` shows shorter completions. Previously, the popup spanned the whole absolute file name being completed, and now it starts after the nearest directory separator (#[1040](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1040)). * New user option `company-capf-disabled-functions` (#[1437](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1437)). * Better support for `yas-key-syntaxes` (#[1268](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1268)). * New user option `company-tooltip-scrollbar-width` with default 0.4. * The tooltip uses a more complex rendering approach, supporting double width/CJK characters, as well as buffer text of different sizes ([#1394](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1394)). `variable-pitch-mode` is also working better, although when using it it's recommended to customize the `company-tooltip` face to be monospaced. * New user option `company-dabbrev-code-completion-styles`. Use it to enable fuzzy matching in `company-dabbrev-code` ([#1215](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1215)). An example configuration one can try: ```el (setq company-dabbrev-code-ignore-case t company-dabbrev-code-completion-styles '(basic flex)) ``` * New user option `company-etags-completion-styles`, to be used the same way. * The backend command `keep-prefix` is being phased out. The built-in backends implement it internally now, which resolved a number of sharp edges (mostly) around "grouped" backends. To make that easier, several helpers were added, such as `company-cache-fetch` and `company-substitute-prefix` ([#1411](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1411)). And `company-ispell` uses the cache to keep the currently selected dictionary loaded in memory between completions. * The "length override" behavior in grouped backends now acts on each backend separately ([#1405](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/pull/1405)). ## 2023-10-08 (0.10.2) * More `company-auto-update-doc`-related fixes. * Better handling of `C-g` performed inside a `doc-buffer` handler ([#1408](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1408)). ## 2023-10-06 (0.10.1) * Fix upgrading from 0.9.13 when the package is already loaded ([#1406](https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1406)). ## 2023-10-04 (0.10.0) ... ...
