Re: Feature branches review please

[Jean Louis]

* Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org> [2020-11-06 00:19]:
> 
> > > As I said earlier in this thread, you can have icomplete-vertical
> > > without using that branch, with the master branch you only need to
> > > `(setq icomplete-separator "\n")'.
> > > 
> > > If you want a more robust solution however (neither the above nor
> > > the branch are always correct),
> > 
> > In which case the branch is not correct?
> > 
> 
> This has been discussed at length earlier: it is in practice impossible to
> calculate the height of the minibuffer, and to calculate the size of the
> completion candidates list to insert in the minibuffer.  Yet you need to do
> both to have a correct solution with the approach of the branch.

While this may not be mathematically possible, it can be observed that
ivy simply works much better then both the reinvented icomplete-mode
and built-in ido-mode.