Re: [PATCH] icomplete-vertical

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Sorry for bringing this up again, but I still don't get why this is a 
> > minor mode from a user perspective. Vertical or horizontal doesn't 
> > sound like something that should be a (global) mode, but a regular 
> > option. Wasn't there a patch or a branch that tried to implement it 
> > that way?
>
> That would be the feature/icomplete-vertical branch.
>
> Which we'll certainly need to consider and compare when reviewing this 
> patch.

It was a consequence of the development of that feature branch that the 
redisplay-adhoc-scroll-in-resize-mini-windows variable was added to Emacs. 
This variable, which is used by this patch, is the only way to implement 
the feature correctly, that is, while obeying Emacs' constraints on the 
miniwindow size (max-mini-window-height, resize-mini-windows, size of the 
other windows in the frame, and so forth).