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

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Message #17 received at 24293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 24293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24293: 25.1; Display bug: icomplete prompt not visible with
 icomplete-separator "\n"
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:44:45 +0300

> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:38:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 24293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

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