Dear auctex developers,
I'm using auctex with the company completion system. The problem
is that
company-minimum-prefix-lengthis ignored in tex files. This is annoying when typesetting math with the usual single-character symbols like
i or n
because I have to press C-g multiple times to turn of the completion
overlay.I had initially posted this issue on github with spacemacs and
company-auctex, it affects several people as well
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9388
https://github.com/alexeyr/company-auctex/issues/18
The root of the problems seems this code in auctex/tex.el in
v11.91
;; By default, company completions kick in after a prefix of 3 chars has
;; been typed. Since we don't have too many completions, that's too
;; much.
(set (make-local-variable 'company-minimum-prefix-length) 1)))
I don't understand the explanation given for creating
this local variable. I request that it be removed or done in such a
way that it doesn't override global user settings.