Re: Bug#412919: ITP: predictive -- Text completion package for Emacs

[jmalonzo@gmail.com (Jan Michael C. Alonzo)]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

Zack,

<snip>
>
> The main point of IntelliSense [1] is not about the actual completion
> which type the word after you started typing it, is more about where to
> find the possible completions and, in particular to find them via some
> kind of representation of a codebase (e.g. the list of all methods
> belonging to the class of the instance named to the left of a '.').
>
> So, I ask you: either this is what "predictive" does for Emacs, maybe in
> some programmable way (and would be like Vim's omnicompletion feature)
> or it "just" complete in a single way using the word in the current
> buffer (as plain Vim's autocompletion) and then it would be better do
> describe it as "autocompletion".
>

Thank you for your comments about the predictive package. I already removed
the comparison to Intellisense to avoid confusion as well as emailed the
author regarding the matter. I also added "autocompletion" in the package
description. 

Thank you for your suggestions. Have a nice day.

Cheers,

jan

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