bug#14148: 24.3; make ido-mode slightly more customizable

[Steven <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

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I haven't used Emacs in years. Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 5:20 AM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > list appear vertically. However, This is limited for two reasons, both
> > of which are easy to fix. For one thing, the elements at indices 4 and 5
> > of ido-decorations are overloaded, and used in two places when they
> > really should be separated out into two different pairs of
> > decorations. Specifically on lines 4573/4575, this should use new
> > elements, at new indices 11 and 12 (for backwards compatibility), which
> > default to the same values as the existing elements 4 and 5. Then these
> > "brackets" can be customized separately (one as a newline and one not)
> > when displaying vertically. And only when element 11 exists should it
> > use 11 and 12, otherwise it should fall back to 4 and 5 for backwards
> > compatibility with anyone who has customized ido-decorations themselves
> > before this change. Finally, the inner-if on line 4563 has to be wrapped
> > with an (and (not (ido-show-when-sole-exact-match)) ...) with that
> > variable created as a defcustom above. This will prevent the sole exact
> > match from being hidden, which in vertical mode is confusing and seems
> > to indicate that there no longer remains any matches. I would add the
> > changelog myself but I'm woefully ignorant on how to do so. There is
> > already most of the work done in a patch on the devel mailing list in a
> > post by Stefan Monnier.
>
> That was 10 years ago, so I'm reaching out to see if this is still
> an issue on a modern version of Emacs.  Did you try the new fido-mode,
> for example?
>
> If I don't hear back from you within a couple of months, Ill just assume
> that this has been fixed and close this bug.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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