Subject: Re: bug#48545: 28.0.50; `icomplete-vertical-mode` does not support the `group-function`

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:29:17 +0100

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 13:38 Kévin Le Gouguec <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> João Távora <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> FWIW (I didn't take the time to understand the ins and outs of the
> completion system nor the changes that are being made; sorry about
> that),

Don't beat yourself over it, it's not an easy or pleasent thing to
understand.

with this tentative patch, Icomplete seems to honour
> read-char-by-name-sort.  With icomplete enabled and
> read-char-by-name-sort set to 'code, try
>
>     C-x 8 RET CLOCK FACE
>
> - with the current master branch, the completions are sorted
>   alphabetically,
> - with the tentative patch applied, the completions are sorted by code
>   point.
>

Yes I think that's the idea. But do you think that's good or bad?

This seems to compose well with completions-group AFAICT (see e.g. C-x 8
> RET ROMAN).

 This is good, right?

João