Re: icomplete-vertical above prompt

[Gregory Heytings]

> Regardless of the value of icomplete-vertical-mode-above-prompt, in both 
> cases it jumps once, and that's the problem for users who don't like 
> such jumps, even once.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.  How could you display completion 
candidates without moving the modeline?  I suppose what you have in mind 
is posframes?  But posframes are a completely different beast, and don't 
work in terminals AFAIK.

For that matter, I also don't understand why users "don't like such jumps 
even once".  The point is to make some room to display some information, 
the same happens in many cases, like when *Completions* is opened, or with 
popular packages such as Magit or which-key.

> Also if the number of completions is less than the default 10, then a 
> lot of empty lines separate completions from the minibuffer.

That could be tweaked, perhaps.  But I'm not sure it's worth the price.