Re: Question about completion behavior

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 08:31:57PM +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>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?

Such modification may create an even simpler code.  But we need a way to
hide the completions because there is no way to hide completions in case
the user just wants that.

Alternatives are:

    a) To make minibuffer-hide-completions an interactive function and
find a binding for it. (zsh uses C-g or DEL to first hide completions
and then execute the normal command after a repet.

    b) We could add a feature to toggle completions (ex: add an extra
value 'toggle, that toggles completions in some cases, but that may
exclude 'always or 'visible).

    c) We could hide completions after a second tab after no completion
    was made when vale is 'always or 'visible and completions are
    visible. But that may disable next-completion with tab from the
    minibuffer.

Any idea?
Best,
Ergus