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bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion win
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:04:54 +0200 |
> From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
> Cc: 23092@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:55:33 -0300
>
> >> At this point there is still a tiny completions window with about 50
> >> completions most of which are not visible in the window.
> >
> > Press TAB repeatedly to scroll through those 50 completions.
> >
> > (I'm not saying this cannot or shouldn't be improved, I'm saying this
> > is not "impossible to use".)
>
> That's pretty weird, but yes, it does work (in a manner of speaking).
I'm surprised you didn't know about this behavior. It's one of the
oldest ones I remember in Emacs, a very basic feature of displaying
completions.
> However, it's interesting that with the recipe reversed, the completions
> window _does_ get resized.:
>
> src/emacs -Q
>
> C-x C-f ; find-file
> lib/s TAB ; A largish completions window is shown.
> <backspace> v TAB ; Completions window shrinks.
>
> So it seems that the existing implementation has logic in it for
> resizing the completions window to fit the completions but it just isn't
> working quite right. Unless the design is that the completions window
> can only be "shrunk" but not "grown".
I'm sure Martin will be able to explain this ;-)
bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/22
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, N. Jackson, 2016/03/22
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, N. Jackson, 2016/03/22
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, martin rudalics, 2016/03/23
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, N. Jackson, 2016/03/23
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, martin rudalics, 2016/03/23
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, N. Jackson, 2016/03/23
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, Juri Linkov, 2016/03/23
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, martin rudalics, 2016/03/24
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, Juri Linkov, 2016/03/24
- bug#23092: 25.0.92; Minibuffer completion fails to resize completion window if reused during same command, martin rudalics, 2016/03/25