Package: emacs;
Reported by: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:38:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 25.0.92
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson) To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:37:32 -0300
In Emacs 24 when using completion in the minibuffer, when the frame is sufficiently wide it is split vertically (into side-by-side windows) with the completions in the window on the right. There seems to have been an (undocumented?) behaviour change -- now when using completion in the minibuffer the frame seems always to be split horizontally (into above-and-below windows) with the completions in the lower window. This change does not seem to me to be an improvement, as now far fewer of the available completions are visible at once. I suppose whether a "portrait" or "landscape" completions window is better probably depends on the number and length of the completions and also on the user's frame size, so presumably the splitting behaviour should be a user option. As long as the option is available and documented, I have no opinion on the default, although it would seem more compatible to make it default to the old behaviour. In GNU Emacs 25.0.92.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-03-21 built on moondust Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11801000 System Description: Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -gdwarf-4'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings: value of $LC_MONETARY: en_DK.utf8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_DK.utf8 value of $LC_TIME: en_DK.utf8 value of $LANG: en_CA.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Group Minor modes in effect: gnus-undo-mode: t recentf-mode: t display-battery-mode: t display-time-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t save-place-mode: t electric-pair-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t cua-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t size-indication-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t global-visual-line-mode: t visual-line-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Indent region with <left>, <right>, <S-left>, or <S-right>. 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