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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:44:43 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: andreyk.mad@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>         emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > As mentioned in the original discussion: with a special text property or 
> > overlay property on the first character of the text to be shown in the 
> > mini-window.  The display engine will see that and heed it.
> 
> Okay.  As mentioned in the original discussion, I volunteered to do that, 
> but haven't heard from you since then.

Thank you for volunteering.

What do you need to hear beyond what I already said?

> And IIUC, Stefan didn't think this is the optimal way to do this,
> does he now agree that it's what should be done?

Stefan wanted something more general.  It's fine with me to provide a
more general feature, but the simpler one would suffice (and will do
the job in all the use cases we've been discussing, AFAIU).