From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A solution to display completion candidates after point in a minibuffer
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:14:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010021806230453.2337@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1qgehqv.fsf@gnu.org>
>
> Thanks, but I don't like such solutions, because they attempt to work
> around the display engine in order to do something, instead of asking
> the display engine itself to do that for us.
>
You may not like it, but it works. In many cases programming means
finding an appropriate workaround, and this workaround is better than
those have been used so far.
>
> In bug#43572, a solution that would allow us to ask the display engine
> to do this is being discussed. I'd favor one of the solutions proposed
> there lately, namely, to indicate in the text to be displayed that this
> text wants to be displayed with the window-start set at BOB.
>
This solution, on which there is no agreement yet, still has to be
implemented, and it will only work, in the best case, with Emacs 27.2 and
later. The solution here works with all Emacs versions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-02 15:36 A solution to display completion candidates after point in a minibuffer Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 16:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-10-02 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 17:17 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 19:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-02 21:30 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-02 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 23:11 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-03 6:59 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 16:11 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-04 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 16:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-04 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-03 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-02 22:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-03 12:31 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
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