Re: [PATCH] Support "\n" in icomplete-separator

[Gregory Heytings]

> > And here I come to the answer to your question: for me, the bug here is 
> > that the prompt is hidden in favor of the overlay text.
>
> Applications have to accept that users want their minibuffer windows to 
> show just one line.  Or at most two lines.  Or three ...

I agree with you, except that I would not write "users want" but "some 
users want".

At the same time, applications should be given the possibility to override 
the current only behavior, which starts displaying at the beginning of the 
minibuffer line on which the cursor is.  Applications should have the 
possibility to give a hint to redisplay that, when it is possible (that 
is, when users have not asked for a single line minibuffer for example) 
displaying should start at the beginning of the minibuffer (= point-min).