Re: feature/icomplete-vertical

[Ergus]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 11:37:07AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Alas an estimate is not enough in this case.  As Ergus just wrote, if there
> >  are too many candidates the prompt disappears, leaving the cursor at the
> >  beginning of the minibuffer, which is counterintuitive.  A simple example:
> >  after (setq max-mini-window-height 1), with "M-x a" the "M-x" prompt and
> >  the "a" disappear.
>
> That can (and should) be fixed without having to reduce the number of
> candidates inserted in the (mini)buffer.
>
>
>        Stefan
It will be great if you give me an idea about how to do that. Because
all the code seems to be designed with this assumption in mind. And also
ido and the others had similar issues with this.

I mean, if we can go around the prompt issue all this will be much
easier.