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Re: [PATCH] (icomplete-vertical-mode): Add support for affixations and,


From: João Távora
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (icomplete-vertical-mode): Add support for affixations and, annotations
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:09:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>
>> Regarding the annotations I disagree. The default *Completions* UI
>> also annotates by default with not possibility for the user to turn
>> this off, except by overwriting the `annotation-function` itself for
>> example by advising `completion-metadata-get`.
>>
>
> And this is (for me, and likely for others) one of the differences
> between the *Completions* buffer and the minibuffer.  I'm not against
> making it possible to display annotations in the minibuffer for those
> who want to see them there, but hardcoding them is IMO wrong.  And as
> I said users might want to display these annotations with their own
> formatting, e.g. to display only some but not all of them in the
> minibuffer.

Nothing is hardcoded and icomplete-vertical-mode is a new feature.  So I
woundn't go crazy on customization for customization sake.  Daniel's
proposal was simple enough and it was a no brainer to take.  We're still
discussing the API to do annotations anyway.

João



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