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, 13 Nov 2020 12:56:12 +0000 Message-ID: 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> 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="26051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Andrii Kolomoiets , spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 13:57:26 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 1kdYdp-0006fv-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:57:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56468 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdYdo-00051l-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdYcq-0004b8-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:56:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:50853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdYco-0003G2-Ng; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:56:24 -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 0ADCuF22022970 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:56:15 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0ADCugpJ016542; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 12:56:42 GMT In-Reply-To: <835z69y7kc.fsf@gnu.org> 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 = 2020/11/13 07:40:33 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:259132 Archived-At: Andrii Kolomoiets: >> For example, evaluate this buffer: >> >> (setq max-mini-window-height 1) >> (set-frame-width nil 77) >> >> Now move point to the "max-mini-window-height" and wait to eldoc >> message to come up. What I see in the echo-area is "fer and the echo >> area).". No, the default configuration displays "max-mini-window-height: Maximum height for resizing mini-windows (the minibu". Eli Zaretskii: >> I see many applications are trying their best to fit the text into the >> miniwindow. Can the display strategy be changed to display the >> beginning of the text by default? > > We can do that, but I don't think it would be TRT, because the current > strategy does work in many use cases. I thin a better way is to let > applications control this aspect of the behavior, because we will never > be able to find a solution that always works, what with all the > different settings and kinds of display in the mini-window. > I fully agree with you. And the question is again: given that the solution I offered doesn't please you, how should that be done?