Re: vertical fido-mode (new branch)

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Hi Juri:

There is a new branch with the modifications either in minibuffer.el and
the new file. I followed the recommendations from Stefan and any
suggestion (including names) is very welcome.

Please try that and check if everything is fine to merge into master. I
would like to enable this by default in emacs 28, but going into that
discussion will take maybe 10 years.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 09:55:41PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Could you please try the attached patch (where the mode is enabled by default).
>
>Cool, now completions navigation is much easier than with anything else.
>
>>>Easier can be only one thing: to use arrows and navigation keys to navigate
>>>completions from the minibuffer.  So the main question is on what condition
>>>to activate these keys (instead of allowing them to search in history)?
>>>
>> I enabled the keys only when the *Completions* buffer is shown and the
>> highlight completions is active. And added a hook to remove the bindings
>> when minibuffer-hide-completions.
>
>Good.
>
>> If this patch is too much code for adding in simple and minibuffer, I
>> would try to make a separate file with a mode. WDYT?
>
>Maybe initially this could be a separate package to allow easier
>experimentation with it.  Later when it works well, this could be added
>to core commands.
>