Re: icomplete-vertical-mode not taking effect

[Jean Louis]

* Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> [2021-06-20 13:45]:
> Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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’.
> 
> I'm not that convinced by this, because icomplete-vertical-mode could
> check if fido-mode is enabled, and if not enable icomplete-vertical
> mode.

It is maybe possible that the attitude of reporter influenced the
review of the code.


-- 
Jean

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