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.

-Steven


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> >> it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such that it can
> >> display the completions using a tooltip frame
> > Yuck!  Tooltip frames are ugly, especially if they are large.
>
> I don't see what makes them particularly ugly.  I don't claim they're
> ideal for the job at hand, but they might be "the closest" we have (tho
> maybe we could use a standard frame, and be extra careful to strip its
> mode-line, header-line, tool-bar, menu-bar, ...).
>
> > Why not pop up a GUI dialog instead?
>
> I don't see how that could work for icomplete (which displays remaining
> completion candidates in an unobtrusive way).
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>         Stefan
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