GNU bug report logs - #43283
feature request: new value for completions-format

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nicolas Graner <nicolas.graner <at> universite-paris-saclay.fr>

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:09:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 2.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Nicolas Graner <nicolas.graner <at> universite-paris-saclay.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: feature request: new value for completions-format
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:07:59 +0200

In addition to the 'horizontal' and 'vertical' completion formats, it
would be useful to have a 'single-column' format that displays
completions vertically, one per line, regardless of the window width.

Rationale: for speech output users, when the cursor moves to the
beginning of a line the screen reader typically reads out the whole
line. Having several completions on the same line read at once is
confusing.

Note: the same result can be achieved by reformatting the completions
buffer in a completion-setup-hook but it would be much easier to just
customize completions-format

Nicolas
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