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

[Jean Louis]

* Ergus <spacibba@aol.com> [2020-11-12 00:58]:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 08:37:36PM +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > If someone wants to claim that display of completion candidates by
> > > icomplete-vertical, ivy, etc. is anywhere near as pretty as what you
> > > get when you click on the address bar of a browser and get the
> > > drop-down list of candidates, then I can only say that I cannot
> > > disagree more.
> > > 
> > 
> > But why???  I just tried Ivy again, AFAICS it has everything you have in
> > the drop-down list of a browser: the matching substring is colorized,
> > you can use the mouse to click on a candidate to select it, you can use
> > the mouse to scroll the list up and down...  What am I missing?
> 
> Indeed, I don't see any important visual "disadvantage" in ivy
> appearance compared with what is around. Plus ivy adds some exclusive
> features like the M-o actions, avy integration (avy was created the same
> author) and hydra integration (also from same author). IMO (I already
> said that) we should put more attention to ivy if we want a
> better/pretty completion already working. Ivy solves details like the
> scrolling, long prompt, long like candidates and so on...

Exactly. Ivy is for me so much more useful than icomplete/ido/fido 

And by adding this function from Ivy friend, it can be added to
ivy-display-functions-alist

Its value is
((counsel-irony . ivy-display-function-overlay)
 (describe-function . ivy-display-function-window)
 (ivy-completion-in-region . ivy-display-function-overlay)
 (t . ivy-display-function-window))
Original value was 
((ivy-completion-in-region . ivy-display-function-overlay)
 (t))

Then the mode line stays down where it should be and split window
appears with collection.

I am including this hear as maybe icomplete developers wish to
implement similar.

(defun ivy-display-function-window (text)
  (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create "*ivy-candidate-window*"))
        (str (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Minibuf-1*")
               (let ((point (point))
                     (string (concat (buffer-string) "  " text)))
                 (add-face-text-property
                  (- point 1) point 'ivy-cursor t string)
                 string))))
    (with-current-buffer buffer
      (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) 
        (erase-buffer)
        (insert str)))
    (with-ivy-window
      (display-buffer
       buffer
       `((display-buffer-reuse-window
          display-buffer-below-selected)
         (window-height . ,(1+ (ivy--height (ivy-state-caller ivy-last)))))))))