Subject: Re: bug#29833: icomplete re-build the completion table after each key press

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:51:22 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> So in order to be able to avoid recomputing the candidates "from
> scratch", we'd need the rest of the completion code to give us more
> info, but there is no such infrastructure.
>
> What the current completion system expects instead is that if the time
> needed to recompute the candidates can be large, the *completion table*
> should use a cache.

The completion code has gotten a lot of work lately, but I guess the
conclusion here is that there's nothing specific to do in this bug
report, so I'm closing it.

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