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tychoish
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tychoish is a personal blog at tychoish.com about programming, systems and business. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a how-to on customising completion order in Emacs company-mode, cited as a guide to changing the order of completions from backends like Tabnine.
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Comrades through the Wilderness
What Hacker News says?
Depending on your editor, this may/should be customisable. The tabnine client for Emacs (company-tabnine) is just another completion backend, and the order of completions presented is a just a variable in company-mode that can be set to any order you prefer[1]. 1: https://tychoish.com/post/better-company/
Comment linking /post/better-company/
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