Helm is way, way overkill. I tried it for months and I can't get used to it. It does too many things, has too many options, leaves buffers lying around whenever you use it. But the way ido-mode works is quite perfect. All except this one little visual detail that I'm thinking is probably easy to fix.

-Steven

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> wrote:

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis <at> gmail.com> writes:

> These ideas seem like overkill. The current technique ido-mode
> uses is great, it just could use a different visual
> representation when displayed vertically, that's all. I'm sure
> it can't be that hard, maybe forking ido-mode and hard-coding
> it would be sufficient.

In that case it would make more sense to use Helm. Helm uses a
vertical display by default, so the best solution would be to
create some kind of a bridge between them, so that ido provides
the backend and Helm the frontend.