Subject: bug#24293: 25.1; Display bug: icomplete prompt not visible with icomplete-separator "\n"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:44:45 +0300

> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> 1. Please take care not to break the case of a standalone minibuffer
> frame, or any other context where the minibuffer can be resized to
> accommodate a large number of icomplete candidates.

This is not relevant for such mini-windows.

> 2. It's not clear to me why this should be handled in icomplete.el.
> Doesn't the same problem arise if multi-line text is inserted in
> the minibuffer or if any other program does something similar to
> what icomplete does?  IOW, isn't it a general problem, which would
> call for a general solution?

No.  See the example I posted up-thread.