Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:07:45 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>, casouri@gmail.com, joaotavora@gmail.com,
>         emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> > resize-mini-windows is a user option, so resetting it globally is almost 
> > certainly a non-starter.
> >
> 
> The three lines I sent:
> 
> (setq icomplete-separator "\n")
> (setq icomplete-prospects-height 10)
> (add-hook 'icomplete-minibuffer-setup-hook (function (lambda () (setq 
> resize-mini-windows nil) (enlarge-window icomplete-prospects-height))))
> 
> had no other purpose except demonstrating that (setq resize-mini-windows 
> nil) solves the problem of disappearing prompts.  Of course I do not 
> consider that these lines should be blindly used

Please note that I wasn't replying to your proposal, I was replying to
Jimmy's.

> trying to calculate the height of the completion candidate list,
> which amount (as Stefan wrote) to redoing what redisplay does.

I don't agree with Stefan, if this interpretation of what he said is
correct.  We have window-text-pixel-size to measure the size of text
on display without redoing what redisplay does.