RE: [cdt-patch] Patch proposal for Bug 43174

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas wrote: 
> Aha! Now I'm getting a better understanding.  In that case, I
> would suggest a preference instead which limits the number of
> entries returned to the user.  Since entries get ranked as they
> are put into code completion, and typing "more" causes the list
> to get narrowed down, then limitting the number of entries 
> presented (ie a random semi large number like 250?) seems more 
> than reasonable.
> 
> Limiting the scope of the returned values because the widgets 
> don't handle large data sets seems to be punishing some users
> while not doing justice to the wicked work you guys have done
> on the searching/indexing.
> 
> Thomas

I like this idea better than the one I suggested. 

JohnC