GNU bug report logs - #44080
27.1; Display behavior of overlays `after-string` in resizable minibuffer frames

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Reported by: Clemens <clemens.radermacher <at> posteo.de>

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1

Done: Clemens <clemens.radermacher <at> posteo.de>

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From: Clemens <clemens.radermacher <at> posteo.de>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44080: 27.1; Display behavior of overlays `after-string` in resizable minibuffer frames
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:27:17 +0200

> Indeed.  'fit-frame-to-buffer' strips empty spaces at the beginning and
> end of the buffer - it's aim is to make the frame occupy as little of
> screen space as possible.  If 'resize-mini-frames' should handle
> peculiarities as such display strings, it's probably better to write a
> tailored function that handles them by calling 'window-text-pixel-size'
> with the appropriate arguments.
> 
> But we can change the default behavior as well, or provide an appropriate
> option.


To give some context, the current behavior is a problem for completion 
frameworks which want to display a vertical list of candidates in the 
minibuffer. They need to use an overlay so the candidates aren't 
considered part of the minibuffer-contents which is expected to only 
contain the current user input.
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