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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:36:41 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: rudalics@gmx.at, spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>         andreyk.mad@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > No, I mean what would happen if we displayed a menu simulation by 
> > showing menu items one below the other in a buffer, instead of using the 
> > toolkit menus, or even instead of the TTY menus we have nowadays.
> 
> Okay, now I see what you mean.  Indeed doing this for menus would not make 
> sense / would be ugly.  But of course the essential difference here is 
> that menus are not meant to be used with a keyboard

Actually, menus (even GUI toolkit menus) work with the keyboard very
well.  Including in Emacs.  It's true that interaction with GUI
widgets, including the vertical lists, quite naturally is biased
towards pointing devices, but it is not limited to them.

The important difference, at least for the purposes of this
discussion, is what menus look like, not how users interact with them.