GNU bug report logs - #43519
28.0.50; Overlay at end of minibuf hides minibuf's real content

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

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Message #161 received at 43519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 43519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43519: 28.0.50; Overlay at end of minibuf hides minibuf's
 real content
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:06:04 +0300
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:51:22 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
> cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 43519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> See the two attached screenshots, taken with (setq max-mini-window-height 
> 1) and icomplete-mode.  "no-completion-candidates" is what a user will see 
> with your change, "completion-candidates" is what a user will see without 
> your change.
> 
> So your change has exactly the problem that you explained was so important 
> to avoid, and that I explained was an unlikely corner case.

Thanks.  Please describe the recipe to get this result starting from
"emacs -Q", so that I could look into it.




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