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25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion window splits below rather that right

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com>, 23093 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23093: 25.0.92; Change for the worse: minibuffer completion
 window splits below rather that right
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:47:06 +0100

> 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.

Customizing ‘temp-buffer-max-height’ would fix that.

> 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.

It is.  Please customize ‘display-buffer-alist’ for the buffer named
*Completions*.

> 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.

martin

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