Why I've stopped using ecomplete

[Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>]

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I think the two main reasons are that it simply doesn't fit into my
usage patterns, and it appears to not do anything useful in
(S)XEmacs.

I had it enabled for a week or thereabouts and in that time it
collected 13 addresses.  Of that 13, 3 were my own address for testing
the thing, another 7 were from mailing lists and so useless as
gnus-parameters takes care of those.  That left 3 possibly useful
ones.  Well, not, that useful, these 3 were already in my BBDB. :-)

The only thing I ever saw ecomplete do was to display the first match
in the echo area.  I could not find a way to make it either cycle or
display other matches.  And I could not find a way to make it put
anything in the To: header for me.  Is it supposed to?  I would have
thought so.

But what really killed it for me... was that enabling ecomplete
disables abbrev-mode in message-mode.  Man, I can't live without my
abbrevs. :-)

I did notice that if the addresses are collected with a ENT-enabled[1]
SXEmacs I got errors in non-ENT SXEmacsen.[2]

Lars, I hope you find this feedback useful.  And yeah, I'm happy to
test future versions. :-)


Footnotes: 
[1]  XEmacs equiv is "bignum" (21.5 only)

[2]  I think I mentioned this in another thread.

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