Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

>> Part 1 of the solution (which solves the "root" problem, and is not 
>> specific to icomplete-vertical):
>
> Right.  I appreciate this separation: solve a bug _then_ implement a 
> feature.
>

Thank you :-)

>
> Now, as far as I understand Eli and remaining maintainers are not OK 
> with your bugfix.
>

No, Eli is "not against using this as a workaround [...] until the better 
solution arrives".  It's not yet clear what that "better solution" will 
be, and when it will be implemented.  And for code that needs to work on 
older Emacsen, this will remain a good solution.

>> (setq icomplete-separator "\n")
>> (add-hook  'icomplete-minibuffer-setup-hook (lambda () (setq start-display-at-beginning-of-minibuffer t)))
>> (defun icomplete-vertical-reformat-completions (completions)
>>   (save-match-data
>>     (if (string-match "^\\((.*)\\|\\[.+\\]\\)?{\\(\\(?:.\\|\n\\)+\\)}" completions)
>>         (format "%s \n%s" (or (match-string 1 completions) "") (match-string 2 completions))
>>       completions)))
>> (advice-add 'icomplete-completions :filter-return #'icomplete-vertical-reformat-completions)
>
> For example, in my verticality thing I would even remove one extra 
> feature of your implementation that I don't find useful: the indentation 
> of the candidates.
>

Indeed, I forgot to remove this from my code when I first sent my proposed 
solution two weeks ago.  This extra feature is not anymore present in the 
above code.