Subject: bug#12638: 24.2.50; FR: Some suggestions for icomplete-mode

From: Kevin Rodgers <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:34:30 -0700

On 12/11/12 8:42 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> I think appending, "[Complete, but not unique]????" should
>>> serve as a cue that one can simply RET.
>>
>> You mean we'd display "foo[Complete but not unique]{bar | | baz}"?
>
> FWIW, in my own code (icomplete+.el), I have a separate user option for the
> string that is displayed to indicate an exact match, as opposed to doing this
> (in icomplete.el):
>
> (and most-is-exact
>       (substring icomplete-separator
>                  (string-match "[^ ]" icomplete-separator)))
>
> The default value of the option is (string ?\u2605 ?\  ), i.e., a star.  See
> attached.  (The number 5 shown is the total number of completions.  In this
> particular case all are shown.)

Just curious: Why isn't the exact match (represented by the star) separated from 
the other matches with a vertical bar?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA