From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>, 23092@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:21:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F17F1D.4050201@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuviigpw.fsf@gmail.com>
> When TAB is pressed during entry of a command in the minibuffer, a
> window appears displaying a list of completions. To some extent this
> window seems to be sized to fit the number of completions. If the
> user enters more of the command and presses TAB again the contents
> of the completions window are refreshed but the window is not resized.
>
> This is impossible to use if there are very few completions when TAB
> is pressed the first time, resulting in a very tiny window, and
> there are very many completions when TAB is pressed the second time.
> This can happen, for example, when finding a file.
>
> For example, from the Emacs build directory:
>
> src/emacs -Q
>
> C-x C-f ; find-file
> lib/v TAB ; A tiny window pops up with "verify.h" and "vla.h."
> <backspace> s TAB
>
> At this point there is still a tiny completions window with about 50
> completions most of which are not visible in the window.
>
> On the other hand,
>
> C-x C-f lib/s TAB
>
> displays the same completions in a much larger completion window
> (looks like it's half the frame height), so most of the available
> completions can be seen.
Please try again with ‘temp-buffer-resize-mode’ enabled. I always
wanted to enable it by default but a number of people didn't like it so
I dropped the idea.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 17:07 bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command N. Jackson
2016-03-22 17:21 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2016-03-22 18:42 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-22 19:56 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 21:06 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 18:55 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-22 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-22 20:07 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 16:45 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 20:34 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-24 7:43 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-24 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-25 7:42 ` martin rudalics
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