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

[Jean Louis]

* Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com> [2020-11-12 22:33]:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > On 12.11.2020 09:58, martin rudalics wrote:
> >>  > 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.
> >> Wholeheartedly agreed.  In particular with all that blank space at the
> >> right side of the minibuffer window. 
> >
> > Have either of you tried Ivy + ivy-rich + ivy-posframe?

That is right, people have to try it out.

ivy-posframe is useful for me. It also demonstrates that minibuffer is
just one way of selecting, there can be various ways of selecting.

For me is more logical to watch in the middle of screen for
selections. Not on the bottom and not on pure top. Middle is just
fine.

I do it as it was already decided by design of Emacs that way.

ivy-posframe will not work on console. It is good for X.

> I've been using ivy happily for years and like it's UI better
> than ido, icomplete and helm, having tried them all.  And I
> look forward to selectrum becoming more complete.
> 
> ivy-rich is also great, particularly when you fill the right side

Thank you for references. It looks fancy and useful for the purposes I
have here to show additional information related to hyperlinks (which
are not necessarily WWW hyperlinks).

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