Doom-emacs: Company suggestions disapear on quick-help

[tecosaur]

What did you expect to happen?
For company suggestions to stick around after the quick-help shows up (in emacs-lisp-mode).

What actually happened?
They, they, ... _*hic_, they disappeared! :sob:

Additional details:

• Private config
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Steps to reproduce:

1. Open new emacs-lisp-mode buffer
2. Type something suggestive
3. Trigger company
4. Observe suggestions, wait for the popup
5. Wail in sadness as you see your suggestions disappear when the quick-help arrives

System information:

emacs   version    26.3

        features   XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD

        build      Oct 05, 2019

        buildopts  (--prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-solus-linux --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/emacs --with-modules --with-xwidgets --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 'CFLAGS=-mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -g2 -O2 -pipe -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong --param ssp-buffer-size=32 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -ftree-vectorize -feliminate-unused-debug-types -Wall -Wno-error -Wp,-D_REENTRANT' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,--sort-common')

        windowsys  x

        daemonp    server-running

doom    version    2.0.9

        build      HEAD -> develop c049ada61 2020-03-11 00:57:44 -0400

        dir        ~/.config/doom/

system  type       gnu/linux

        config     x86_64-solus-linux-gnu

        shell      /bin/zsh

        uname      Linux 5.5.7-150.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 4 03:31:00 UTC 2020 x86_64

        path       (~/.local/bin /opt/SageMath ~/.pyenv/bin ~/.cargo/bin /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /snap/bin /usr/lib64/emacs/emacs/26.3/x86_64-solus-linux/)

config  envfile    envvar-file

        elc-files  181

        modules    (:completion (company +childframe) (ivy +icons +prescient) :ui doom doom-dashboard doom-quit hl-todo modeline nav-flash ophints (popup +all +defaults) pretty-code (tabs +centaur-tabs) treemacs vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe (window-select +numbers) workspaces zen :editor (evil +everywhere) file-templates fold (format +onsave) multiple-cursors rotate-text snippets :emacs (dired +icons) electric (ibuffer +icons) vc :term vterm :checkers syntax spell grammar :tools ansible debugger (eval +overlay) (lookup +dictionary +docsets) lsp magit make pdf rgb upload :lang data emacs-lisp ess (javascript +lsp) (latex +latexmk +cdlatex) ledger markdown (org +dragndrop +jupyter +pandoc +gnuplot +present) (python +lsp) (rust +lsp) sh web :config literate (default +bindings +smartparens))

        packages   ((some-package) (another-package :recipe (:host github :repo username/repo)) (this-package :recipe (:host github :repo username/repo :files (some-file.el src/lisp/.el))) (builtin-package :disable t) (builtin-package :recipe (:nonrecursive t)) (builtin-package-2 :recipe (:repo myfork/package)) (builtin-package :recipe (:branch develop)) (company-tabnine :recipe (:host github :repo TommyX12/company-tabnine :files (company-tabnine.el fetch-binaries.sh))) (prettify-utils :recipe (:host github :repo Ilazki/prettify-utils.el)) (rotate) (xkcd) (selectric-mode) (wttrin) (spray) (theme-magic) (flyspell-lazy) (calctex :recipe (:host github :repo johnbcoughlin/calctex :files (.el))) (ess-view) (systemd) (org-pretty-table-mode :recipe (:host github :repo Fuco1/org-pretty-table)) (ox-gfm) (org-ref) (org-fragtog) (org-graph-view :recipe (:host github :repo alphapapa/org-graph-view)) (org-chef))

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[minikN]

I can confirm this. This just happens (at least for me) using lisp-mode.

[blw90]

Same here. If I disable company-box-doc-enable suggestion won't disappear without the Documentation window.

[ferhaterata]

Same problem occurs in different modes.

[bennyandresen]

Maybe it's obvious, but for search purposes this issue exists only for (company +childframe) which uses company-box, which seems to be abandoned. (Last commit over a year ago, while several PRs and issues have been piling up.)

@hlissner
I suggest to label this has:workaround or that the +childframe sets company-box-doc-enable to nil.

[tecosaur]

Sorry, maybe I'm blind, but what's the workaround?

[bennyandresen]

Sorry, maybe I'm blind, but what's the workaround?

set company-box-doc-enable to nil.

[tecosaur]

Wait, so the workaround to a feature not working, is to turn off the feature?

[bennyandresen]

My understanding is that the feature is company suggestions. They disappear due to quick-help being enabled and the library responsible for quick-help not being actively maintained.

Therefor the workaround to get the feature of not having broken company completion/suggestions is to disable the quick-help popup. Another alternative to not having broken company completion is not to use +childframe and therefor skipping the unmaintained company-box library.

[ferhaterata]

I had to set it nil once I knew it. (setq company-box-doc-enable nil) The problem is if I use C-h on a suggestion, the same problem occurs again: the company box disappears. Btw, this also happens on different modes as well (e.g. sml-mode). I think it is not specific to emacs-lisp-mode.

[hlissner]

Thanks to dinkonin on Discord I've zeroed in on the cause of this issue. As of 7e40c1e this should be resolved. It should be safe to re-enable company-box-doc-enable. Let me know if that isn't the case and I'll reopen it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[ferhaterata]

it is fixed! thanks!