From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#43572: Feature request: make it possible to choose whether the first lines of the minibuffer should be displayed instead of the last ones Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:47:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6xguy7w.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22044"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, 43572@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 20:48:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9oM-0005dY-UP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:48:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34660 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9oL-0006KJ-SR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9oA-0006IM-MF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9oA-0002qB-CS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9oA-0006bB-Az for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:48:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 43572 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 43572-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B43572.160088686725335 (code B ref 43572); Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 43572) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Sep 2020 18:47:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37845 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9ng-0006a9-HU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:47:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51870) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9ne-0006Zs-Us for 43572@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9nZ-0002m6-Eu; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1606 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kL9nZ-0004nu-3S; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:47:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:33:13 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:188819 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:33:13 -0400 > Cc: 43572@debbugs.gnu.org > > I don't have a patch to suggest, but I think ideally, I'd want clients > like icomplete to tell the redisplay either something like "please > display as much as possible of *this* chunk of text" or maybe "feel free > not to display all of this overlay, it's not super important". > > [ Note: "please display as much as possible of *this* chunk of text" is > what I'd want to do in diff-mode when I move between chunks or in > smerge-mode when I get to a new conflict, so maybe such a thing would > make sense not just in the minibuffer. ] This could be a useful new feature, but we still need to decide what should the display engine do when the chunk of text marked with this new indication (some text property, probably?) cannot all of it be displayed. Should it then display only its first part, only its last part, something else?