Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Applications have to accept that users want their minibuffer windows 
> > > to show just one line.  Or at most two lines.  Or three ...
> >
> > Also users: "Show us completions vertically" and (setq 
> > <icomplete/ido/etc>-separator "\n")
>
> Users shouldn't want the cake and eat it too.  Any application should 
> take care of such users.

Of course, nobody is asking to display completion candidates vertically by 
default.

> If an application has a truly expandable minibuffer window or a normal 
> window at its hands, it can try to show completions vertically.  With 
> the default minibuffer window, it should always behave as if only one 
> line were available.

Why?  The default value for max-mini-window-height is 0.25 (at least since 
Emacs 21), which means that in a default 80x24 terminal the minibuffer can 
be 6 lines tall.