Subject: Re: bug#15362: 24.1; pcomplete unnecessarily restricts tab-completion entry points

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:39:48 +0200

Vivek Dasmohapatra <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Have you set completion-cycle-threshold?  If yes and it still doesn't
>> cycle, please post a recipe.
>
> With the recipe as before, but _without_ erc-pcomplete at the head
> of erc-complete-functions so the value is:
>
>   '(erc-pcompletions-at-point erc-button-next-function)
>
> And with completion-cycle-threshold set to 5, I get the following from
> repeatedly tabbing:
>
> ERC> jlf: jlf_``: jlindsay: jlf: jlf_``: jlindsay: jlf:
>
> so instead of cycling it's just adding the next element from the matching
> candidates list each time.

That was 6 years ago, and it seems like erc no longer uses pcomplete.
Are you still seeing this in a modern version of Emacs?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas