Re: master@head: completing-read behavior change?

[T.V Raman]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

will check icomplete when I have time, I frankly dont remember any more
whether I handle it. What would be a simple test usage for icomplete? I
have ido, flx-ido and ido-ubiquitous (can never remember its new name)
active, so as you can guess my emacs world is complex.> Hi T.V.,
>
> On 23.01.2020 3:03, T.V Raman wrote:
>> Fix is here for the curious:-)
>> https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/blob/master/lisp/emacspeak-ido.el#L85
>
> You haven't answered my question about support for icomplete-mode. Do
> you only support Ido?
>
> I'm happy you made it work, but I think it would be better to handle
> the general approach. Meaning, instead of hardcoding the names of
> (private) variables, scan the minibuffer, look for the overlays with
> after-string, order by 'priority', and read their contents one after
> another.
>
> The new set-minibuffer-message feature uses the same approach if
> minibuffer is active. Although, in that case, you could advise this 
> function, or set an alternative handler via the set-message-function
> variable (also just added in Emacs 27).
>

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