Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 08:37:36PM +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote:
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>>If someone wants to claim that display of completion candidates by 
>>icomplete-vertical, ivy, etc. is anywhere near as pretty as what you 
>>get when you click on the address bar of a browser and get the 
>>drop-down list of candidates, then I can only say that I cannot 
>>disagree more.
>>
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>But why???  I just tried Ivy again, AFAICS it has everything you have 
>in the drop-down list of a browser: the matching substring is 
>colorized, you can use the mouse to click on a candidate to select it, 
>you can use the mouse to scroll the list up and down...  What am I 
>missing?

Indeed, I don't see any important visual "disadvantage" in ivy
appearance compared with what is around. Plus ivy adds some exclusive
features like the M-o actions, avy integration (avy was created the same
author) and hydra integration (also from same author). IMO (I already
said that) we should put more attention to ivy if we want a
better/pretty completion already working. Ivy solves details like the
scrolling, long prompt, long like candidates and so on...

There is also an extension for ivy: ivy-postframe [1] which shows the
completions in a postframe (of course). And the appearance is (IMO) as
good as anything else around.

[1]: https://github.com/tumashu/ivy-posframe

BTW: The postframe creator asked in this list some days ago about adding
the package to elpa . All the contributors got the copyright already; but
I don't know if he received any reply to proceed.

You can see the thread:

https://github.com/tumashu/ivy-posframe/issues/95