Re: Some help with icomplete

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Zhengyi Fu <i@fuzy.me>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:46:56 +0800
> 
> Rahul Martim Juliato <rahuljuliato@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thing is, the list always starts on the next line (that is ok) but on
> > the first column. So it is very strange to M-TAB with the cursor on
> > column 50 and get a list on column 0. If I were using plain
> > `icomplete-mode' (no vertical), it would complete horizontally from the
> > place my cursor is at the moment.
> >
> > Can anyone elucidate me on how to make it work the way I'd like to?
> 
> If you compile Emacs from source, you can try this patch:
> 
> Index: emacs/lisp/icomplete.el
> ===================================================================
> --- emacs.orig/lisp/icomplete.el
> +++ emacs/lisp/icomplete.el

Since icomplete.el is not preloaded, applying this patch does not
require rebuilding Emacs from sources.  It only requires
byte-compiling icomplete.el after patching it, and perhaps restarting
Emacs.