GNU bug report logs - #39379
27.0.60; Fix for #38457 broke ido-vertical-mode

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Message #29 received at 39379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#39379: 27.0.60; Fix for #38457 broke ido-vertical-mode
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 05:21:34 +0200

> Cc: 39379 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
> From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 21:33:22 +0000
> 
> On 02/02/2020 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Workaround: set ido-max-prospects to 7 or less.
> 
> That gets the prompt back but now the cursor is at the wrong place lol

That's a separate problem that should be easy to fix.  The problem is
that the new code in ido.el tells Emacs to display the cursor on the
first character of the overlay string, but that first character is a
newline in the case of ido-vertical-mode, and Emacs cannot place the
cursor on a newline.

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