Re: Allowing completion sources to customize completion display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:08:20 +0200
> Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 25/11/2023 21:07, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:27:51 +0200
> >> From: Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>
> >>
> >> I hadn't considered company-mode in that context, but the preview
> >> frontend in there should look more or less like the "Completion Preview"
> >> feature proposed (or recently added?) to the core.
> > It is possible that providing an in-buffer preview for multi-line
> > completions makes no sense, and we shouldn't even try.  If the
> > solutions are to show the preview in a separate window, then how is
> > this different from popping up the*Completions*  buffer?
> 
> I think when we say "preview", we usually mean "inline preview". Not 
> separate window.

AFAIR, one of the proposals for handling the preview of multi-line
candidates was to show a special buffer (supposedly, in a window, how
else?).