These try to modify the completions on a global basis.
This is causing a lot of issues with more intelligent
backends, which tend to do this in a more efficient
way already.
I have removed the global bindings for these now.
Layers should make `company-transformers` buffer local
and add specific versions of these when required.
To optimise performance of lsp mode in emacs 27 and above
I have introduced a new dotfile variable to define the size
of data read from external processes. The default I have
set to the recommended setting from lsp-mode.
In addition I have introduced a new layer variable for
auto-complete-layer to define the minimum prefix length.
I have also added instructions to auto-complete's readme
how to set these variables to the recommended settings
for lsp-mode.
Changes inspired from #13507
add auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip support
add auto-completion-use-company-box option and update document
add company-box config source url, remove empty line and join single line parenthesis
hide company-box mode line
update CHANGELOG.develop
hide doc popup when selection changed
add all-the-icon in auto-completion-packages
move icons config to auto-completion/init-all-the-icons according to duianto's advice
Enabling a company backend for a specific mode was a tedious tasks with code
scattered at different locations, one for local variable definitions, one for
company hook function definitions and another where the backends were pushed to
the local variables (which was problematic, since we ended up pushing the same
backends over and over again with `SPC f e R`, pushes have been replaced by
add-to-list calls in the new macro).
All these steps are now put together at one place with the new macro
spacemacs|add-company-backends, check its docstring for more info on its
arguments.
This macro also allows to define arbitrary buffer local variables to tune
company for specific modes (similar to layer variables via a keyword :variables)
The code related to company backends management has been moved to the
auto-completion layer in the funcs.el file. A nice side effect of this move is
that it enforces correct encapsulation of company backends related code. We can
now easily detect if there is some configuration leakage when the
auto-completion layer is not used. But we loose macro expansion at file loading
time (not sue it is a big concern though).
The function spacemacs|enable-auto-complete was never used so it has been
deleted which led to the deletion of the now empty file core-auto-completion.el.
The example in LAYERS.org regarding auto-completion is now out of date and has
been deleted. An example to setup auto-completion is provided in the README.org
file of the auto-completion layer.
New value `manual` for auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip enables the
user to display help tooltip on-demand. Other values remain the same:
nil for no tooltip at all, t (or any non-nil non-manual value) for
automatic tooltip.
Minor fix: call `company-quickhelp-mode` just once, because it's a
global minor-mode.
