How to disable autocomplete drop down in comments?

[michelrandahl]

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask questions, I am still trying to get used to github and I don't see other places to ask questions on projects than in the issues (which I personally feel should be related to bugs, and not questions)...

Since I updated all my emacs plugins recently, I am now getting autocompletion drop downs when writing in F# comments.
I didn't get autocompletion dropdowns in comments before updating, and I find them to be profoundly annoying since they hide my code while I'm writing on a comment. Don't get me wrong, I love having the autocompletion dropdown when working with the actual code itself, -I just don't want them when writing on my comments as they obscure the view of the code.

Is there a way to get rid of autocompletion dropdowns when writing on comments?

I realize that the "autocompletion in comments" might be caused by another plugin since I am using Spacemacs which is bundled with many plugins, but as a clueless Emacs rookie I have to start the investigation somewhere...

[nosami]

Seems like you are hitting dabbrev completions (words that can be anywhere in the buffer).

The way the F# emacs plugin has been setup, it tries to use real intellisense first, then falls back to any other available company-mode (the completion engine) backends.

(setq company-backends (list 'fsharp-ac/company-backend)) would force company-mode to only use real intellisense.

[nosami]

The problem with ^^ is that that would clobber the company-backends for all file types. If you want to remove word completions from all file types then this might work for you (untested)

  (setq company-backends
         (let ((backends-to-remove '(company-dabbrev company-dabbrev-code company-keywords)))
               (remove-all #'(lambda (backend) (member backend backends-to-remove)) company-backends)))

(defun remove-all (predic seq &optional res)
   "Remove items that could be anywhere inside a nested list"
   (if (null seq)
       (reverse res)
       (cond ((and (not (null (car seq))) (listp (car seq)))
              (remove-all predic (cdr seq)
                          (cons (remove-all predic (car seq)) res)))
             ((funcall predic (car seq))
              (remove-all predic (cdr seq) res))
             (t (remove-all predic (cdr seq) (cons (car seq) res))))))

[michelrandahl]

Thank you so much!
Using (setq company-backends (list 'fsharp-ac/company-backend)) is very satisfying for me for now, since I currently only work with F# projects.

Since I am writing here, I might as well also send out a big thanks to you guys for making this plugin, which I have happily been using for more than half a year in Linux 👍

[juergenhoetzel]

Also see: #102 (comment)

I guess I finally found a solution: #104