Subject: Re: bug#28051: Multiline Statement Indentation Error in Inferior Python Mode

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:28:42 -0400

close 28051 26.1
quit

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 8/22/17 4:36 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
>
>> Hmm, when using company-mode the error message is sent repeatedly, which
>> seems pretty annoying.  But silently returning no matches could be
>> confusing.  Dimitri, any advice?
>
> Use a python-specific global variable and only show the warning one
> time? Or at most once in XX seconds?
>
> There's no existing diagnostic UI for this in company-mode. And the
> idea for completion-at-point-functions is to not signal errors during
> normal operation (an error means there's a bug to be fixed, and
> bugging the user in that case seems okay).
>
> In this particular case, though, I'd simply return no completions. We
> do the same in inf-ruby anyway (no completion on continuation
> lines). Add a warning message once a session, if you prefer.

If it's okay for inf-ruby it's probably okay for python.

[1: 5440b238b1]: 2017-08-27 13:46:41 -0400
  Disable completion while entering python multiline statements
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=5440b238b1ec4175dd32bc14b4098f6570b2ca85