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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > If someone wants to claim that display of completion candidates by 
> > > icomplete-vertical, ivy, etc. is anywhere near as pretty as what you 
> > > get when you click on the address bar of a browser and get the 
> > > drop-down list of candidates, then I can only say that I cannot 
> > > disagree more.
> >
> > But why???  I just tried Ivy again, AFAICS it has everything you have 
> > in the drop-down list of a browser: the matching substring is 
> > colorized, you can use the mouse to click on a candidate to select it, 
> > you can use the mouse to scroll the list up and down...  What am I 
> > missing?
>
> The looks, the looks...

This is very subjective.  I find the looks of the minibuffer with vertical 
completions very nice, and given the popularity of packages that implement 
that feature (Helm and Ivy) I'm sure I'm not alone.  And, FWIW, I would 
very much dislike a "combo box like UI" to replace this.