From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:55:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83pn4hwedn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20201105235735.oxouuek66ehu5o45@Ergus> <20201106151541.dpgep7borlja25su@Ergus> <837dqv5huk.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtzp2qj0.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1p11369.fsf@gnu.org> <834klv26vu.fsf@gnu.org> <835z69y7kc.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuttwgsp.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11465"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 14:56:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZYr-0002rG-Q3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:56:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZYq-0007dH-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZXx-00079w-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:55:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZXt-0007Fi-09; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2709 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZXn-0007Mu-EE; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:55:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:44:43 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259141 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:44:43 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: andreyk.mad@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > As mentioned in the original discussion: with a special text property or > > overlay property on the first character of the text to be shown in the > > mini-window. The display engine will see that and heed it. > > Okay. As mentioned in the original discussion, I volunteered to do that, > but haven't heard from you since then. Thank you for volunteering. What do you need to hear beyond what I already said? > And IIUC, Stefan didn't think this is the optimal way to do this, > does he now agree that it's what should be done? Stefan wanted something more general. It's fine with me to provide a more general feature, but the simpler one would suffice (and will do the job in all the use cases we've been discussing, AFAIU).