Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:25:13 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com,
>         joaotavora@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net
> 
> > No, my objections are that your proposal is not safe wrt recursive 
> > editing, and will affect uses of mini-windows other than prompting the 
> > user, where these effects aren't intended.
> >
> > AFAIU, Stefan agreed that this is a problem in your proposal.
> >
> 
> I don't know which proposal you refer to in that sentence, but I guess 
> it's the (second) patch I sent on bug#43572 a week ago, against Emacs C 
> core.

I referred to the same proposal to which João referred.

> The solution in this thread works at the Lisp level, and will not affect 
> other uses of the miniwindow, because it relies on a minibuffer-local 
> variable.  AFAICS it is also safe wrt recursive editing.

Using a buffer-local variable doesn't necessarily eliminate the
problems with recursive-edit.  And using window-scroll-functions for
this purpose is a no-no.  So I cannot endorse this others solution,
either.