Re: Some help with icomplete

[Zhengyi Fu]

Rahul Martim Juliato <rahuljuliato@gmail.com> writes:

> Thing is, the list always starts on the next line (that is ok) but on
> the first column. So it is very strange to M-TAB with the cursor on
> column 50 and get a list on column 0. If I were using plain
> `icomplete-mode' (no vertical), it would complete horizontally from the
> place my cursor is at the moment.
>
> Can anyone elucidate me on how to make it work the way I'd like to?

If you compile Emacs from source, you can try this patch:

Index: emacs/lisp/icomplete.el
===================================================================
--- emacs.orig/lisp/icomplete.el
+++ emacs/lisp/icomplete.el
@@ -913,6 +913,16 @@ icomplete--render-vertical
                  ((> (length scroll-above) (length scroll-below)) nsections)
                  (t (min (ceiling nsections 2) (length scroll-above))))
            lines))
+    (when icomplete--in-region-buffer
+      (let ((column
+            (with-current-buffer icomplete--in-region-buffer
+              (save-excursion
+                (goto-char (car completion-in-region--data))
+                (current-column)))))
+       (dolist (l lines)
+         (add-text-properties
+           0 1 `(display ,(concat (make-string column ?\s) (substring l 0 1)))
+           l))))
     ;; At long last, render final string return value.  This may still
     ;; kick out lines at the end.
     (concat " \n"

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Zhengyi Fu