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   > I'd say this much more bluntly: Emacs's minibuffer input was not 
   > designed for showing too many completion candidates, let alone show them 
   > vertically arranged.  It was even less designed to display the 
   > candidates or other hints in overlays.

   Well, Emacs wasn't designed to manage emails or browse the web either ;-) 

That isn't really the case, Emacs has been able to manage email since
it was a bunch of editor macros for TECO and it has always been one of
the usages for Emacs other than writing code.