From: Zhengyi Fu <i@fuzy.me>
To: Rahul Martim Juliato <rahuljuliato@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some help with icomplete
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:46:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyqpycjz.fsf@fuzy.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y19esfds.fsf@gmail.com> (Rahul Martim Juliato's message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:30:07 -0300")
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
@@ -913,6 +913,16 @@ icomplete--render-vertical
((> (length scroll-above) (length scroll-below)) nsections)
(t (min (ceiling nsections 2) (length scroll-above))))
lines))
+ (when icomplete--in-region-buffer
+ (let ((column
+ (with-current-buffer icomplete--in-region-buffer
+ (save-excursion
+ (goto-char (car completion-in-region--data))
+ (current-column)))))
+ (dolist (l lines)
+ (add-text-properties
+ 0 1 `(display ,(concat (make-string column ?\s) (substring l 0 1)))
+ l))))
;; At long last, render final string return value. This may still
;; kick out lines at the end.
(concat " \n"
--
Zhengyi Fu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-16 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-15 17:30 Some help with icomplete Rahul Martim Juliato
2024-04-16 7:46 ` Zhengyi Fu [this message]
2024-04-16 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-16 14:18 ` Rahul Martim Juliato
2024-04-17 4:57 ` Zhengyi Fu
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