Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.04.2020 23:45, Yuan Fu wrote:

> > Though, it's a single line displaying completions, a vertical display
> > could be better, especially if the entries are longer.
> >
> > And someone did it already:
> >
> > https://github.com/oantolin/icomplete-vertical
> >
> > Icomplete-vertical should be adopted into the core as an option and this
> > is how completion should be set up for newbies.
> >
> > It's still not as good looking as the one on my first link, but it's
> > almost there. It's vertical, it gives you instant results, so it's much
> > closer to completion provided by modern tools (Idea, VsCode, etc.) than
> > the default one.
>
>
> Thanks for sharing! I tried to use icomplete with “\n” separator, but 
> encountered the problem that this package aims to solve. This should definitely 
> be included as bugfix.

And it's definitely a very good step.

It would be even better if it could work with any of the packages that 
move minibuffer into a childframe. Unfortunately, the combination seems 
broken one way or another, probably because icomplete-vertical has to 
rely on a hack to get the right behavior.

E.g. with https://github.com/honmaple/emacs-maple-minibuffer I get:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot resize a minibuffer-only 
frame")
  resize-mini-window-internal(#<window 6 on  *Minibuf-1*>)
  window--resize-mini-window(#<window 6 on  *Minibuf-1*> 36)
  enlarge-window(1)
  icomplete-vertical-minibuffer-setup()
  run-hooks(icomplete-minibuffer-setup-hook)
  icomplete-minibuffer-setup()