sly completion company-capf has a cannot understand annotation

[stardiviner]

Because sly-company is deprecated now, and sly now support company-mode by company-capf now. I found the annotation is really weird. can't understand what it is.

[joaotavora]

You're right, it's quite cryptic unless you're already used to it. What do you think of this?

[stardiviner]

This one in screenshot is annotation. Have to admit that is cryptic. Can't understand it intuitively.
Can sly prove this annotation or have any option for this?

[joaotavora]

I don't understand exactly what you mean. In the previous version, it was indeed cryptic, but the version I pushed now should be less cryptic. "Fn" means function, "var" means special variable, etc. The percentage after it tells you how well the completion candidate matched.

[stardiviner]

Ehh, sorry, I have not realized that have already pushed update. I mean your screenshot version is fine for me.

[stardiviner]

One more thing, can the annotation align more better:
when the candidate completion match score is different length, the annotation is not align well:

The first candidate annotation is wider than other candidate annotations. Make the percent number has a fixed length? WDYT?

[joaotavora]

Make the percent number has a fixed length? WDYT?

Hmmm, OK.

[joaotavora]

Hmmm, OK.

Actually, I don't undestand what is happening in your system... This is what I get from an Emacs -Q session

emacs -Q -L . -l sly.el -f sly -L ~/.emacs.d/elpa/company-20180317.1008/ -l company -f global-company-mode --eval '(setq company-tooltip-align-annotations t)'

[stardiviner]

Hmm, I tested with your command on my machine. Indeed, company works as your screenshot.
I used company-box package. Seems it cause this wrong align. I will post an issue on company-box. Thanks for your help. @joaotavora