Elpy: Auto-complete UI issue

[rakanalh]

When auto complete is triggered in elpy, i think both company and auto-complete are competing to show completion options:

I've checked that elpy is using company for auto complete... is there a way to disable auto-complete when using elpy?

[rakanalh]

I was able to fix this using:

(defadvice auto-complete-mode (around disable-auto-complete-for-python)
  (unless (eq major-mode 'python-mode) ad-do-it))

(ad-activate 'auto-complete-mode)

Which will disable auto-complete for python-mode

[jorgenschaefer]

Hello, and thanks for the question! An easier approach would be to remove python-mode from ac-modes – e.g. (setq ac-modes (delq 'python-mode ac-modes)). That variable holds the list of modes in which global-auto-complete-mode enables auto-complete.

I hope this helps, and enjoy Elpy! :-)

[rakanalh]

Thank you for the much easier suggestion!

[humitos]

I had the same problem, and the setq ac-modes was a solution. Thanks!

I'm wondering why do you prefer company-mode instead of auto-complete. I found ac too much complete than company, don't you?

Maybe I'm missing something on my configuration or I'm not seeing the power of company. Can you explain it to me?

[jorgenschaefer]

Maybe I'm missing something on my configuration or I'm not seeing the power of company. Can you explain it to me?

We used auto-complete in the past. Reasons for changing are explained e.g. here.