Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Gregory Heytings]

> > To my knowledge, if we want to come close to what those other editors 
> > show, our current best bet is icomplete-vertical (or something similar 
> > to it) PLUS a packages that moves the minibuffer to either the center 
> > or the top of the frame (or makes it seem live the minibuffer has been 
> > moved, of course).
>
> Those have an annoying misfeature of causing jumps in the window above 
> the minibuffer.
>
> Other possibilities exist, but my point is that if we want to offer a 
> better completion to make it easier for newcomers who expect something 
> like that, we should work on a completion style that they expect, or 
> something very similar, and icomplete-mode isn't.

I never noticed that misfeature before you mentioned it, and I agree with 
you that it could surprise newcomers.  However, with (setq 
scroll-conservatively 101), which is one of the suggested options in the 
proposal, its effect is much more limited, and I believe newcomers would 
not be surprised anymore.