From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:51:05 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20201105235735.oxouuek66ehu5o45@Ergus> <20201106151541.dpgep7borlja25su@Ergus> <837dqv5huk.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtzp2qj0.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1p11369.fsf@gnu.org> <834klv26vu.fsf@gnu.org> <835z69y7kc.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuttwgsp.fsf@gnu.org> <83pn4hwedn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34434"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , spacibba@aol.com, andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 12:52:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kezXe-0008rc-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:52:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54106 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezXd-00053j-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezW7-0004BL-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:56463) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kezW5-0001cu-GU; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 0AHBp8Vp009566 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:51:09 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 0AHBpWlk007189; Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:51:32 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/17 06:51:15 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259283 Archived-At: >> I would prefer to be sure that there is an agreement that your proposed >> solution (using a text property or an overlay property) is the way to >> go. AFAIU the discussion between you and Stefan in bug#43572 stopped >> before reaching such an agreement. > > My proposal was for a more ambitious new feature which would be used not > just in the minibuffer but also in things like diff-mode or smerge-mode > (to tell the redisplay that when we're in a hunk, it's a good idea to > try and focus on that hunk). > I was not thinking about that feature, which indeed is much more ambitious, but about the `minibuffer-scroll-generic' feature you proposed, which would have solved the issue at hand, and for which you wrote a (partial) patch. Now I think indeed that just doing what Eli wants is the best way to move forward. > > Such a new feature is well beyond the scope of your needs (and > introduces a lot of open questions), so better ignore it at this point. > I just hijacked this discussion because it reminded me of a need I've > had in other contexts. Sorry 'bout that. > No worries, there have been several discussions in parallel, and perhaps I have misunderstood some of the messages.