From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:16:13 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83r1p11369.fsf@gnu.org> <19ee521b-0a47-60bb-e5b0-ef52393978c8@gmx.at> <838sb728fl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13796"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: spacibba@aol.com, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, martin rudalics , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 17:18:01 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 1kcsoq-0003RS-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:18:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41364 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcsop-0008FJ-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:17:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcsnS-0007KB-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:47009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcsnO-0007LF-Cj; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.177]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0007.000000005FAC0E5B.00004EC6; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:16:27 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <838sb728fl.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/11 08:57:59 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:259024 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-11-11 18:57]: > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, spacibba@aol.com, > > Andrii Kolomoiets , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: martin rudalics > > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:49:54 +0100 > > > > The application has to make sure that when it asks for user input, the > > entire prompt can be seen in the minibuffer window without truncating > > lines. Emacs has to provide some reasonable minimum space for the > > minibuffer window - usually one canonical frame line. If an application > > asks for more than can be displayed in the minibuffer window, that > > application has a bug. > > In that case, most uses of icomplete-vertical and any similar features > "have bugs". There's no chance in the world you can display all the > files in a non-trivial directory vertically in a mini-window without > losing some of the file names and/or some of the prompt. One can display it in other window and where line is too long, user can use keys like arrows right/left to go to side depending of the language, to see the remaining of the line.