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

[João Távora]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 3:40 AM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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.

I admit I don't know how long or painful the discussion was for all of you,
but so far the only argument against doing what I suggest is performance,
and it seems weak according to my measurements (which are the only
ones I've seen).

So I miss how ideas for less code and stabler return type of an API
call fall into bikeshedding territory.  Those would be more struct vs
deflcass vs list vs propertized string for me, for example. But even
there, might not be bikeshedding, it depends on the intentions.

> 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".

They make a difference in the part I was trying to touch.

João