Re: emacs 24.4 disable popup in minibuffer

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 7 November 2014 19:15:48 UTC, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> On Friday, 7 November 2014 15:11:19 UTC, Stefan Monnier  wrote:
> > > Hmm, I wonder if perhaps one of my melpa packages has updated at the same
> > > time and caused confusion. I'll bisect my .emacs: I'm basically getting
> > > popup completion in the minibuffer now where previously it would show
> > > different options in a new buffer (e.g. C-x b <prefix-TAB>)
> > 
> > Since I still don't know what you mean by "popup completion", I can't
> > help you much further.
> 
> Popup completion =>
> 
>   http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx162/fommil/2014-11-07-190723_1918x1078_scrot_zpscf010543.png
> 
> Normally my minibuffer is one character tall. Here it is about 11 or 12 because the popup resizes the minibuffer.
> 
> AND I just confirmed that this happens even when I move my .emacs to the side, so this has been introduced by either emacs 24.4.1 or debian's site plugins.
> 
> In fact it looks like debian have done something because
> 
>   /usr/bin/emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file
> 
> and this goes away.
> 
> Sorry all, I should have checked this before posting to the group.

Further to this, I narrowed the problem to this package:

https://github.com/syohex/emacs-popup-complete/blob/master/popup-complete.el

and it's behaviour seems to have changed in emacs 24.4.1 (without it changing).

I'd be greatly obliged if you could have a look and see if there is anything obvious that could be done to disable the popup in the minibuffer.