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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I see no need to re-hash the whole discussion around it, unless you find
>> an actual concrete problem with it (rather than an aesthetic dislike).
> A confusing API and a complicated minibuffer.el are concrete problems IMHO.

These are judgment calls, i.e. aesthetic dislikes.
The long discussion we've had about ti shows that there's a lot of
disagreeing tastes around this topic, so I'm pretty sure we won't find
one that satisfies everyone.

>> Let's move on.  If we can't agree on this design which has no clear
>> flaw, I can't imagine we'll ever come to an agreement for the
>> replacement of `affixation-function`
> You may not think it worth it, but the complicated minibuffer.el hampers
> my efforts to experiment with replacements for affixation-function.  Nothing
> insurmountable but I for one like tighter API's and code.

I highly doubt changing the API for `group-function` would make any
measurable difference in this respect since it's a pretty small part of
"the complicated minibuffer.el".


        Stefan