From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Cc: 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 21:04:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837fgu49m1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737riibq2.fsf@gmail.com> (nljlistbox2@gmail.com)
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Cc: 23092@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:55:33 -0300
>
> >> At this point there is still a tiny completions window with about 50
> >> completions most of which are not visible in the window.
> >
> > Press TAB repeatedly to scroll through those 50 completions.
> >
> > (I'm not saying this cannot or shouldn't be improved, I'm saying this
> > is not "impossible to use".)
>
> That's pretty weird, but yes, it does work (in a manner of speaking).
I'm surprised you didn't know about this behavior. It's one of the
oldest ones I remember in Emacs, a very basic feature of displaying
completions.
> However, it's interesting that with the recipe reversed, the completions
> window _does_ get resized.:
>
> src/emacs -Q
>
> C-x C-f ; find-file
> lib/s TAB ; A largish completions window is shown.
> <backspace> v TAB ; Completions window shrinks.
>
> So it seems that the existing implementation has logic in it for
> resizing the completions window to fit the completions but it just isn't
> working quite right. Unless the design is that the completions window
> can only be "shrunk" but not "grown".
I'm sure Martin will be able to explain this ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 19:04 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
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 [this message]
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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