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Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Better vertical-ness in ido-mode?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:30:14 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> I've tried helm, and it's way too overkill for this small task. It's much
> too heavyweight, uses buffers and leaves them sitting around, and does way
> too many things. Now ido-mode is *almost* perfect for completion and
> narrowing when used vertically. It just has a few quirks because it was
> never imagined to be used this way by the developers.

On a related note: it might be interesting to change icomplete.el such
that it can display the completions using a tooltip frame rather than
"inline" in the minibuffer.


        Stefan




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