Company - idle completion not working

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Hi List, 

I just discovered company-mode, and it basically works with this in my
init.el:

,-------------------------------------------------------
| (when (try-require 'company)
|   (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'global-company-mode)
|   (setq company-begin-commands '(self-insert-command))
|   (setq company-idle-delay 0.5)
|   (setq company-minimum-prefix-length 3)) 
`-------------------------------------------------------

but not the idle completion. If I type 

,-------
| (mess*
`-------

[with point at *]

in an emacs-lisp-mode buffer and wait, nothing happens. Doing M-x
company-complete shows 'message' as obvious completion. Did I forget
about some basic settings to make idle comletion work?

PS

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(emacs-version)
#+end_src

#+results:
: GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
:  of 2014-01-28 on var-lib-archbuild-extra-x86_64-juergen

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten