Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 05:13:40PM +0000, Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. wrote:
>
>Hi Ergus,
>
>I gave your icomplete-vertical a try.  It seems to work well so far, 
>but there is one thing that does not work as expected (or, at least, 
>as I expect it to work): for some reason when you complete a filename 
>(find-file), the first candidate './' has been taken out of the 
>candidate list (with both icomplete-format 'vertical and 'horizontal), 
>which means that I see ("[]" is the point):
>
>Find file: ~/[]/ | { <other candidates> }
>
>or:
>
>Find file: ~/[]./
><other candidates>
>
>I do not understand why this is the case.
>
>Likewise, when there are multiple candidates, icomplete-vertical 
>behaves in a counterintuitive way with find-file, for example I see 
>(with two candidate directories "foofoo and "foobar"):
>
>Find file: ~/foo[]foofoo
>foobar
>

You are right. This is a change I introduced recently to simplify
something else. I will fix it asap; the idea is that you may see:

Find file: ~/foofoo
foobar

and with a different option this:

Find file: ~/foo
foofoo
foobar

with the first foofoo fontified. As someone requested also to have this:

Find file: ~/foo
                 foofoo
                 foobar

or

Find file: ~/foo
              foofoo
              foobar

And personally I want this:

Find file: ~/foo
> foofoo
   foobar


So I am working in all of them at the time avoiding adding too much
complexity. But the code get complex because I have to keep old
variables like the separator which I don't need (because I am using
formats)

I'll keep you posted when I fix this. It is not very complex indeed but
I am very busy these days.