It seems impossible to prevent automatic completion after a dot, regardless of company settings

[prosoitos]

Summary

I don't like company and eldoc popups to be triggered automatically. I much prefer triggering them manually with a kbd when I need them. This is how I have configured company and it works perfectly everywhere... except for elpy which seems to override my company settings.

My my config, I have:

(setq company-idle-delay nil)
(setq company-minimum-prefix-length 10)

The first one should be sufficient to stop company from auto-completing without being manually triggered (and it works well elsewhere). The 2nd one is thus not useful, but I am adding it here to show that elpy does not follow these settings.

Whenever I use a dot in a python-mode buffer, the company auto-completion popup pops up automatically, even if there is only one character (e.g. t.) and even if it shouldn't popup in the first place.

So my questions are:

• Why isn't elpy respecting my company settings?
• What could I do to have company behave in my python buffers the way it does everywhere else?

Of course, I could disable company in python-mode and that would solve those annoying popups when I don't want them. But then, of course, I wouldn't be able to trigger them with a kbd when I do want them.

Thanks!!!!

My configuration

OS

Arch Linux (5.15.13-arch1-1)

Result of (elpy-config)

Emacs.............: 27.2
Elpy..............: 1.35.0
Virtualenv........: None
Interactive Python: python 3.10.1 (/usr/bin/python)
RPC virtualenv....: rpc-venv (/home/marie/.emacs.d/elpy/rpc-venv)
 Python...........: python 3.10.1 (/usr/bin/python)
 Jedi.............: 0.18.1
 Autopep8.........: Not found (1.6.0 available)
 Yapf.............: Not found (0.32.0 available)
 Black............: Not found (21.12b0 available)
Syntax checker....: flake8 (/usr/bin/flake8)

Elpy configuration in my init.el

(elpy-enable)

(setq elpy-modules
   '(elpy-module-company elpy-module-eldoc elpy-module-pyvenv elpy-module-highlight-indentation
     elpy-module-yasnippet elpy-module-django elpy-module-sane-defaults))

[prosoitos]

Note: I suspect that the problem has to do with the dot. After dot, there is automatic completion, regardless of company settings.

company-jedi has a variable about auto-completion after dot that can be set to nil to prevent this behaviour. Maybe a similar variable could be added into elpy???

Thanks!!!

[smithzvk]

The issue here is around elpy.el:2809 where the package quite rudely overrules your preferences. Just a few lines before, it sets a hook to override your preference for company-minimum-prefix-length. IMO, packages shouldn't override your customizations like this.

To work around this behavior, you can patch elpy.el or, I assume, you can put a hook somewhere to reset these variables to your preferred values after elpy clobbers them.

[gopar]

Does running the company settings in elpy-mode-hook help with this?

(add-hook 'elpy-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq company-idle-delay nil) (setq company-minimum-prefix-length 10))

[smithzvk]

Yep, that hook seems to work to restore the original values for me.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 9:51 AM Gopar @.***> wrote:

Does running the company settings in elpy-mode-hook help with this?

(add-hook 'elpy-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq company-idle-delay nil) (setq company-minimum-prefix-length 10))

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[gopar]

Closing this as resolved, since settings can be put in elpy-mode-hook