From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:43:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20201105235735.oxouuek66ehu5o45@Ergus> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28541"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Andrii Kolomoiets , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ergus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 09:44:22 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 1kaxM6-0007Kr-H7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:44:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxM5-0003bM-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxLF-0002kZ-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:51455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kaxLD-0003Ul-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 03:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0A68hLd2005347 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:43:21 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0A68hn0Y000556; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:43:49 GMT In-Reply-To: <20201105235735.oxouuek66ehu5o45@Ergus> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/06 03:42:24 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? 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:258785 Archived-At: > > What you do in the patch is basically the same that is in the branch, > but there are considered some more user requested cases like multiple \n > in the separator, using a different font size in the minibuffer and > display the completions in window-only frames like in mapple, or having > a first candidate longer than a single line/occupying multiple lines. > The problem is that there were so far only a few "other user requested cases", and that there are other cases that were not yet requested. It is alas a too fragile solution.