emacs Jedi disable #

Question

I have a working version of JEDI with Emacs 24.3 on osx. The autocomplete feature is wonderful, except for when I want to comment things out! I frequently comment/uncomment portions of my code and was hoping there was a way to prevent JEDI's auto completion from coming up when I type #. Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

edit: When I go to comment multiple lines I enter in # typically followed by DownArrow and LeftArrow, but what usually happens with JEDI enabled is this dialog pops up preventing me from moving to the following line until I make a selection:

Answer 1

You can try to use company-jedi for your python completion. This package doesn't have this problem.

Answer 2

One way to get around this issue would be to select the lines (region) you would like to comment out and hit M-; . This runs the command comment-dwim which comments out the selected region (or uncomments it, if it is currently commented out).

When used in conjunction with eg mark-lines which allows you to select the current line with a single key stroke, this makes for a really fast way of (un)commenting portions of your code, even if they span just one or two lines.

Answer 3

emacs-jedi dev here. If emacs-jedi works as you describe, then that's a bug.

But I cannot say what is wrong from the limited information I have. So, just general directions:

1. First, always try to reproduce the misbehavior in a clean Emacs setting, described here http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/latest/#quick-try

   This helps you to find out if your setting is wrong or if it is actually a bug in emacs-jedi.

2. Give the output of Mx jedi:show-version-info . http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/latest/#jedi:show-version-info

   This helps people diagnosing the problem.

3. This is a guess from your screenshot but it seems that you have old version of popup.el. So maybe auto-complete.el could be old one if you install them at the same time. If you don't see the problem in the clean Emacs (step 1. I mentioned above) which installs newest libraries, then updating them could solve the problem.

Update

So, I found a way to reproduce the behavior which is close to what you mentioned: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-jedi/issues/147

But as I wrote in the issue, I think it is a rare case. If you find a case which could happen very frequently, then let me know.