> tends to result in long lists

The maximum size of the autocomplete menu is set (default 10) but the list can 
be longer than that, so you can't see the end items.  That is the issue with 
long lists, because a wrap will be blind to items that are not visible yet.

I am aware that VScode behaves this way, and when I accidentally scroll up too 
far and wrap it switches to some item that is not visible in the menu and is 
usually some rubbish system library thing that has no relationship to what I am 
typing, contributing to my opinion that wrapping autocompletes, especially 
prioritised ones, may not be very useful in unscoped situations.

I already said that the list is likely to be shorter in scoped autocompletes, 
but those tend to resolve to one very quickly in my experience, yours may 
differ.  

As stated it is my opinion that it will not be very useful, it is entirely 
reasonable to state an opinion, even if it disagrees with yours.  Accepting 
that others may have differing opinions is part of open source software 
development where people have significantly differing experiences and 
use-cases.  Even someone with your limited experience (half of mine) is 
listened to and engaged with, even if disagreed with.

> from the staff

There are no staff here, Geany is an entirely volunteer project, people 
contribute what they wish to use their own personal "spare" time for.

> For me, after trying many good editors, for years, I found that it is 
> fundamental !

Since all Geany contributors are volunteers they are likely to contribute what 
they find is important to them, irrespective of how important it is to you.  So 
far nobody has found it so fundamental in either the Geany or Scintilla 
projects that they have contributed it.

But if it is so important to you then you can create a pull request to 
Scintilla to add the capability as I posted above, and then everybody can use 
it if they find it useful.  At no time have I said it should not be 
implemented, just that I am of the opinion that it will not be very useful.

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