GNU bug report logs - #41340
26.3; ido-completing-read doesn't respect completion-auto-help

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>

Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 23:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>, 41340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41340: 26.3; ido-completing-read doesn't respect completion-auto-help
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 03:57:45 +0300

On 17.05.2020 03:12, Ryan C. Thompson wrote:
> 
> One minor wrinkle is that completion-auto-help has 3 valid values: nil, 
> t, and lazy. I'm not sure I understand the difference between t and 
> lazy, so I'm also unsure as to how to apply them to ido. In my testing, 
> both t and lazy seem to result in the identical behavior in 
> completing-read-default.

When it's `lazy', you need to press TAB twice to see the completions 
list. At first it'll just say "Next char is not unique".

If you can honor both values, that would be best, but even making the 
nil/non-nil distinction will be an improvement, sounds like.
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