icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect

[arvid-harnack]

>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.