Subject: bug#50459: 28.0.50; Python shell completion is incompatible with flex, orderless, etc.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 14:09:06 +0200

Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's true: the logic here is that the completions are computed
> eagerly, and then cached until still valid.  So if you type
>
>   fo<tab>o.bar.baz
>
> the inferior process is contacted 3 times: after the <tab>, and after
> each dot.  Before, a lazy table was returned, but the inferior would be
> contacted after each character anyway (if using Company or similar).

Ah, I see, then that sounds like a definite improvement.  My other
question is then how the cache is flushed...

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