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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > I'd say this much more bluntly: Emacs's minibuffer input was not 
> > > designed for showing too many completion candidates, let alone show 
> > > them vertically arranged.  It was even less designed to display the 
> > > candidates or other hints in overlays.
> >
> > Well, Emacs wasn't designed to manage emails or browse the web either 
> > ;-)
>
> That isn't really the case, Emacs has been able to manage email since it 
> was a bunch of editor macros for TECO and it has always been one of the 
> usages for Emacs other than writing code.

Thank you, this I didn't know.  That being said, I'd guess that "manage 
email" in those days meant something completely different (much, much 
simpler) from what Gnus for example does these days...