From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:28:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877diqrhm6.fsf@posteo.net> <87sg1dzgzq.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7468"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9S4v4oMLOcdK7vsisUEJOc6Jj48= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 19 23:28:56 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1luiWO-0001po-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:28:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40914 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luiWN-0004xM-J8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:28:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luiW4-0004x5-7A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:34514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luiW2-0000PK-F9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luiW0-0001MF-Py for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:28:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131048 Archived-At: > is well and good but OTOH 1) why wouldn't it be like that? Because before Emacs it wasn't like that? > and 2) you _still_ have to write the actual documentation ... Not only that: the user *still* has to read it. There's gotta be a better way, Stefan