From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2@gmail.com>, 23093@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23093: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:47:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F1932A.3060507@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn66ifc3.fsf@gmail.com>
> In Emacs 24 when using completion in the minibuffer, when the frame is
> sufficiently wide it is split vertically (into side-by-side windows)
> with the completions in the window on the right.
>
> There seems to have been an (undocumented?) behaviour change -- now when
> using completion in the minibuffer the frame seems always to be split
> horizontally (into above-and-below windows) with the completions in the
> lower window.
>
> This change does not seem to me to be an improvement, as now far fewer
> of the available completions are visible at once.
Customizing ‘temp-buffer-max-height’ would fix that.
> I suppose whether a "portrait" or "landscape" completions window is
> better probably depends on the number and length of the completions and
> also on the user's frame size, so presumably the splitting behaviour
> should be a user option.
It is. Please customize ‘display-buffer-alist’ for the buffer named
*Completions*.
> As long as the option is available and documented, I have no opinion on
> the default, although it would seem more compatible to make it default
> to the old behaviour.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-22 17:37 bug#23093: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right N. Jackson
2016-03-22 18:47 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2016-03-22 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-23 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-23 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-23 20:17 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-24 7:42 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-25 7:42 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-25 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-25 8:37 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-25 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 18:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-22 19:45 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-23 8:09 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-23 21:35 ` Juri Linkov
2016-03-24 7:43 ` martin rudalics
2016-03-24 22:16 ` Juri Linkov
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