Subject: bug#16226: [patch] icomplete can't display completions on initial display

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:45:42 -0500

> The next problem for me is the obnoxious prompt: when icomplete is enabled,
> the default choice is readily apparent. switch-to-buffer, however, still
> enthusiastically displays the "default" choice in the prompt, and this hint
> becomes stale once we start cycling through completions. Right now, I'm
> using minibuf-eldef to kill that part of the prompt, but there must
> be a better way.

I think minibuf-eldef is the way to go, yes.

> Would you be opposed to a C level variable that stopped completions
> functions from adding the default choice bit to the prompt in the
> first place?

That wouldn't work, since the default is added "by hand" at
tens/hundreds of places.

        Stefan