Suggestion: Using snippet instead of company-template

[zhuzhongshu]

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I use company-irony as my C++ completion backend before, but it doesn't support fuzzy matching, so I try to use company-ycmd instead. While I find company-ycmd utilize company-template to deal with function args expansion, which doesn't support font-lock inside the template. Do you think the choice of company-irony is better, it seems to use a yasnippet-like form rather than company-template.

[abingham]

I'm personally satisfied with the current use of company-ycmd. The lack of font-lock doesn't really bother me. However, I suppose that template expansion with font-lock would be least marginally better (assuming that it functions as well as the current solution.)

I don't really have any time to spend on implementing this kind of low priority change. However, I'm happy to consider alternatives if you want to provide a patch or give more explicit instructions on how to make the change.

[zhuzhongshu]

OK, the current solution is good enough. I find auto-complete mode and company-irony and yasnippet uses the same expansion solution and I simply want the unified form for everything.

I know little about elisp, so I can't provide a patch, what I can do is just help to do the test and report bugs, sorry!

[abingham]

OK, thanks for the suggestions. It's always good to get feedback, even if I can't act on it immediately. I'll leave this issue open in case someone feels like working on it. And definitely let us know if you have more ideas.

[ptrv]

I also tried using irony-snippet for template expansion and used the functions here in the code: https://github.com/ptrv/emacs.d/blob/master/site-lisp/company-ycmd-ext.el

You just have to (require 'company-ycmd-ext)

It works, but it is not perfect and does not work in all cases i.e. when the function argument have template arguments.

But I switched back to company-templateify because it really good enough.

[zhuzhongshu]

OK, I will try it, many thanks!