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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05.06.2021 07:23, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I'm fine if you fix this and fine if you leave it. Personally, I've switched to
> > fido-mode +  fido-vertical-mode  which doesn't do the [mplete.el] dance.
> > Personally I'm  also fine to remove this complexity altogether, even for
> > non-vertical Icomplete/Fido, but I think at least Stefan likes it (possibly
> > others, but no record thereof).
>
> I'm not very much attached to the "[mplete.el] dance", FWIW.
> I do think it helps cram a fair bit more candidates in the small amount
> of space usually available in horizontal icomplete,

It's actually disabled in fido-mode, except for the "sole remaining 
match" case, so we're not really cramming them in. So it's an aesthetic 
choice at this point.

> so I suspect other
> users may care, but I'm not one of them because I don't use icomplete
> any more (well, I do enable it occasionally, but it's fairly rare).

Did you go back to the standard completion UI?