Subject: bug#11035: 24.0.94; icomplete with multiline candidates and standalone minibuffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:47:50 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:13:36 -0700
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7822.  And this is the emacs-devel
> thread that led to it:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00323.html.
> 
> No one but Lennart paid any attention to that bug report, and Lennart was, IMO,
> off-base.
> 
> But Stefan was involved in the emacs-devel discussion.  Please see that
> discussion.  Stefan's conclusion seems to be that `fit-window-to-buffer' is
> inadequate and broken, and that what I requested is not really an enhancement
> request but a bug fix.  It just has not yet been fixed.

So why isn't count-screen-lines what you need?  If it doesn't work in
the specific case in point you need it, please show what is the use
case and how it fails in that use case.