Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 10:30:13AM +0000, Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. wrote:
>
>>>Look at the attached patch as it is partially simplified in my 
>>>local branch.
>>
>>Thanks, I'll have a look.
>>
>
>It seems to me that it does not work as well as my code, alas.  A few 
>points:
>
>- with C-x C-f the default completion, between angle brackets in the 
>original icomplete code, is not shown anymore, unless there is a 
>single candidate (for example in a directory with "foo", "bar1", 
>"bar2", "f" will give "f[oo]" but "b" will give "b[]"); in other 
>words, the "[]" after the point usually serves no purpose
>
>- likewise, with M-x there is a "()" after the point that usually 
>serves no purpose
>
As you can see in my patch I didn't change that part.

>- if I type "M-x icomplete-m", I see the following:
>
>M-x icomplete-m(ode)
>|
>
>where "|" represents the cursor (on the next line!)
>
I can't reproduce this, normally this happened when there was a missing
space before the newline in icomplete--list-indicators-format, but it is
in the patch....


>- when the current line after the prompt is too long the prompt disappears
>
Yes, set visual-line-mode -1 for this. Is the only solution so far and what I
will do in the setup probably.

>- when completing a unique completion with TAB the point is moved to 
>the next line
>
Same problem of icomplete--list-indicators-format. Did you applied the
patch cleanly?

>Gregory
>