Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > That can (and should) be fixed without having to reduce the number of 
> > > candidates inserted in the (mini)buffer.
> >
> > It will be great if you give me an idea about how to do that.
>
> You need to figure out why the redisplay decides to hide the prompt 
> rather than some other part of the (mini)buffer.
>
> Usually, the deciding factor is the position of `point` (the redisplay 
> tries hard to always keep `point` visible).

In this case it is not, apparently at least.  As you can see with the 
(setq max-mini-window-height 1) M-x a example, the typical effect is to 
put the point at the first position of the window (top left), thereby 
hiding what precedes (the prompt and the characters typed so far).