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-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS1
-rw-r--r--lisp/icomplete.el15
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index feed62c1cad..2fb8daab101 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ of not providing replacement pairs via the history.
*** make-variable-frame-local. Variables cannot be frame-local any more.
*** From subr.el: window-dot, set-window-dot, read-input, show-buffer,
eval-current-buffer, string-to-int
+*** icomplete-prospects-length.
*** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the
FOO variable. Use 'default-value' and 'setq-default' to access and
change FOO, respectively. The exhaustive list of removed variables is:
diff --git a/lisp/icomplete.el b/lisp/icomplete.el
index cd352de65b4..a4153e806df 100644
--- a/lisp/icomplete.el
+++ b/lisp/icomplete.el
@@ -56,10 +56,6 @@
:link '(info-link "(emacs)Icomplete")
:group 'minibuffer)
-(defvar icomplete-prospects-length 80)
-(make-obsolete-variable
- 'icomplete-prospects-length 'icomplete-prospects-height "23.1")
-
(defcustom icomplete-separator " | "
"String used by Icomplete to separate alternatives in the minibuffer."
:type 'string
@@ -91,13 +87,14 @@ Otherwise this should be a list of the completion tables (e.g.,
:version "24.4")
;;;_* User Customization variables
-(defcustom icomplete-prospects-height
- ;; 20 is an estimated common size for the prompt + minibuffer content, to
- ;; try to guess the number of lines used up by icomplete-prospects-length.
- (+ 1 (/ (+ icomplete-prospects-length 20) (window-width)))
+(defcustom icomplete-prospects-height 2
+ ;; We used to compute how many lines 100 characters would take in
+ ;; the current window width, but the return value of `window-width'
+ ;; is unreliable on startup (e.g., if we're in daemon mode), so now
+ ;; we simply base the default value on an 80 column window.
"Maximum number of lines to use in the minibuffer."
:type 'integer
- :version "23.1")
+ :version "26.1")
(defcustom icomplete-compute-delay .3
"Completions-computation stall, used only with large-number completions.