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icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect
From: |
arvid-harnack |
Subject: |
icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:38:40 +0200 (CEST) |
>From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
>To: arvid-harnack@lavache.com
>Subject: Re: icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect
>Date: 19/06/2021 21:26:48 Europe/Paris
>Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 02:03, <arvid-harnack@lavache.com> wrote:
>> There have been a number op people who agree that the mode enabling
>> feels very surprising. The answer one gets is - "it is designed that way".
>You have been given a sound reason: ‘icomplete-vertical-mode’ can be
>used with either ‘icomplete-mode’ or ‘fido-mode’. If it automatically
>enabled ‘icomplete-mode’, it would no longer work with ‘fido-mode’.
>The name is unfortunate because it is easy to get the idea that it is
>“like icomplete-mode but vertical”, but the principle is good: one
>choice between sets of functionality, and an orthogonal choice about
>presentation.
I find it more unfortunate that one changes the way icomplete results are
displayed
and another mode gets screwed. Certainly it is not a devine plan.
icomplete-vertical should be exactly as icomplete. The way you view results
should
be immaterial. But developers cannot accept it as a problem, expecting users to
behave like idiots and pretend it is not a problem.
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