Loading some symbols, when, and index-cache

[Simon Marchi]

On 4/9/25 3:42 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 09:43:45AM -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> On 2025-04-08 03:29, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
>>> I will check those pending patches. Are they likely to be integrated?
>>
>> Yes, it's from Tom Tromey, so it's probably good :).  I hope to find the
>> time to look at them soon, to add my approval.
> 
> I thought that one interesting approach would be to restrict the
> tab-completion to the "minimal" symbols, as a user config option. I wonder
> if that set is more than enough for many cases.

Not really, because you can tab-complete much more than minimal symbols.
In production apps, minimal symbols only contain exported functions and
variables.  They also don't know anything about types.

> What are the occasions where only "minimal" symbols are searched, and
> occasions where "all" symbols are searched (by means of partial symbols +
> CU loading)?

I don't know for sure.  I think that full symbols are always searched
first when trying to resolve a symbol name to a symbol.

Simon