Company popup completion list missaligned

I'm still not sure if this happens somewhere else, but in an Org-mode file when Company shows the completion list, depending on the text behind it, it will move the candidates some spaces to the right or to the left.

Thank you @iris-garcia for reporting this! It seems to me that it is related to what looks like a different height between the headings and the main text. Perhaps you are using the "scalable headings" option?

If that is the case, then I suggest we prepare a reproducible recipe on emacs -Q and report it to the Company developers. What do you think?

Just prepared a bug report with a reproducible recipe. What do you think?

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[SUBJECT] Bug: Company pop-up does not align over faces with different :height

Please see attached screenshot for the problem.

In an emacs -Q session configured to run company-mode, follow these steps to reproduce the issue:

• C-x C-f /tmp/test-company.org
• Insert some common text:

Testing phenom

* That is a test
* This is a test

Some words: phenomenal, phenomenality, phenomenology, phenomenon

• Try to complete "phenom" on the first line. The company pop-up displays correctly.

• Now change the height of the headings by evaluating this:

(set-face-attribute 'org-level-1 nil :height 2.0)

• Try again to complete "phenom". You should notice the misalignment of the pop-ups. It only occurs over elements that have a :height other than the default (i.e. also for smaller values than 1.0).

Hey @protesilaos, I have just reproduced your steps. It looks good to me, thanks a lot for reporting this bug.

And also wanted to thank you for your contributions .

You are welcome! I will submit it upstream.

Just posted it here: https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/1010

added bug-upstream label

Just got a reply on github from Dmitry Gutov:

Hi!

This is more or less the same issue, and the problem is that is bumps against the limitation of overlay-based popup rendering.

The advice is the same: install a frontend that doesn't use overlays. Such as https://github.com/tumashu/company-posframe/.

Ok, just tried this frontend and seems to work good. Maybe it is a good idea to include this finding somewhere in the documentation, I bet many other users will encounter this issue.

Thanks for everything :).

Maybe it is a good idea to include this finding somewhere in the documentation, I bet many other users will encounter this issue.

You are right. Tomorrow I will add it to the "notes" section of the manual: https://protesilaos.com/modus-themes/#h:4c4d901a-84d7-4f20-bd99-0808c2b06eba. Will notify you accordingly.

Thanks for everything :).

You are welcome!

added documentation label

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Just pushed a commit that adds the relevant note to the manual. This issue can be closed now. Thanks again for the valuable feedback!

closed

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