From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 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 16:45:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y49agutu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F1932A.3060507@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:47:06 +0100")
Hi Martin,
At 19:47 +0100 on Tuesday 2016-03-22, martin rudalics wrote:
>> 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.
That seems a rather terrifying customization given that the current
value of `temp-buffer-max-height' is:
(lambda
(buffer)
(if
(and
(display-graphic-p)
(eq
(selected-window)
(frame-root-window)))
(/
(x-display-pixel-height)
(frame-char-height)
2)
(/
(-
(frame-height)
2)
2)))
>> 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*.
This also doesn't seem a trivial customization; it involves alists of
alists, cons cells, regular expressions, functions.
This seems to be rather a lot to ask of the user just so they can get
back the Emacs 24 behaviour.
Instead, I was thinking more along the lines of a simple Boolean
variable called something like completions-window-prefer-split-right
with a default value of non-`nil' to give the old behaviour, and `nil'
would give the behaviour we're currently seeing in Emacs 25.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 19:45 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
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 [this message]
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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