bug#61702: Minibuffer scrolling not working when long lines get truncated

[Johann Höchtl]

I left an important part out of my report: I am using fido-vertical-mode. So to reproduce:

emacs -Q

M-x fido-vertical-mode

M-x <consta> <-- any search term to narrow down the potential completions, in this case 12 items remain matching

narrow the whole emacs window so the search results have to "break" because of long lines

<down> <down> ... 

The highlighted active line remains visible until the last items, than the active line becomes invisible

I hope it's more clear now.

Am Mi., 22. Feb. 2023 um 13:37 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> From: Johann Höchtl <johann.hoechtl@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 07:59:04 +0100
>
> I experience the following annoying behavior: If the text in the minibuffer get's longer than the display width
> and lines are therefore continued on the next line, the minibuffer scrolling no longer works.
>
> What I mean by that is that it "logically" works as when I press <down> or <up> the indicator correctly
> displays the number of the item I am supposed to choose when pressing <RET> yet I can't visually see
> what I would select.
>
> First I thought it was a marginalia issue but that's not the case. With marginalia it only shows much more
> easily as marginalia adds text to minibuffer entries thus making lines longer. So this is a thing I can easily
> reproduce when making the whole Emacs window narrow enough to trigger continuation lines in the
> minibuffer.
>
> Seems to be an issue with the highlight line logic and scrolling?

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TIA