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Re: Question about completion behavior


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Question about completion behavior
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 20:31:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>>One question - please explain what values of completion-auto-help
>>nil/t/lazy/visible/always now do in these cases that you posted earlier:
>>
>>  1. no unique        (shows or update completions)
>>  2. unique common    (complete-common and UPDATE completions)
>
> The new values only change this case.  Always shows or update
> completions and visible only updates if they are already visible.
> The other previous values just hide completions.
>
>>  3. unique candidate (complete and hides completion)
>>  4. unique common but completion is a valid entry (complete-common and hides 
>> completion)

Shouldn't some value disable hiding completions in the last case when
there are more completions available with a valid entry as a prefix?
Maybe the same values 'visible'/'always' should be applicable for this case
as well?



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