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Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:57:02 +0200 |
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, spacibba@aol.com,
> Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:49:54 +0100
>
> The application has to make sure that when it asks for user input, the
> entire prompt can be seen in the minibuffer window without truncating
> lines. Emacs has to provide some reasonable minimum space for the
> minibuffer window - usually one canonical frame line. If an application
> asks for more than can be displayed in the minibuffer window, that
> application has a bug.
In that case, most uses of icomplete-vertical and any similar features
"have bugs". There's no chance in the world you can display all the
files in a non-trivial directory vertically in a mini-window without
losing some of the file names and/or some of the prompt.
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Andrii Kolomoiets, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, martin rudalics, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, martin rudalics, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, martin rudalics, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Jean Louis, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, martin rudalics, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, martin rudalics, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Stefan Monnier, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Gregory Heytings, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Jean Louis, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Jean Louis, 2020/11/11
- Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/11/11