From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A solution to display completion candidates after point in a minibuffer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:20:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mu14eh1k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010021806230453.2337@sdf.lonestar.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:14:07 +0000)
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:14:07 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > In bug#43572, a solution that would allow us to ask the display engine
> > to do this is being discussed. I'd favor one of the solutions proposed
> > there lately, namely, to indicate in the text to be displayed that this
> > text wants to be displayed with the window-start set at BOB.
>
> This solution, on which there is no agreement yet, still has to be
> implemented, and it will only work, in the best case, with Emacs 27.2 and
> later. The solution here works with all Emacs versions.
I'm not against using this as a workaround, if someone needs it, until
the better solution arrives. I was just saying that using that code
_instead_ of a solution in core Emacs would be wrong, IMO.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-02 15:36 A solution to display completion candidates after point in a minibuffer Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 16:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-02 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 17:17 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-02 21:30 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 23:11 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03 6:59 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 16:11 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-04 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 16:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-04 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 22:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 12:31 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
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