raoulhatterer/company-try-hard

Get all completions from company-mode backends

company-try-hard - get all completions from company backends

A company-complete alternative that tries much harder to find completions. If none of the current completions look good, call the command again to try the next backend.

Usage

You will need to bind this function globally and in the active company keymap. For example:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-z") #'company-try-hard)
(define-key company-active-map (kbd "C-z") #'company-try-hard)

Rationale

If any company backend returns a prefix, company will not try any other backends (see discussion in company#42).

This is intended to encourage backends that are precise. However, this isn't always appropriate (it's hard to find all completion candidates in very dynamic languages).

Users may simply prefer aggressive completion candidate discovery, especially people migrating from hippie-expand, using hippie-expand-try-functions-list.