GNU bug report logs - #60411
29.0.60; minibuffer-next-completion skips first candidate when completions-header-format and completion-show-help are nil

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: kahatlen <at> gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 60411 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#60411: 29.0.60; minibuffer-next-completion skips first candidate when completions-header-format and completion-show-help are nil
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:49:20 +0000

>
> We could try and add a boolean buffer-local variable to remember if 
> we've already used `minibuffer-next-completion`.  Gregory said he tried 
> and bumped into further problems.  It would arguably be cleaner to do 
> that (and fix whichever other problem shows up), but I haven't had the 
> time to look into that.
>

In fact, the problem is that buffer-local is not local enough in this 
case, because *Completions* can be reused.  Somehow I did not think of a 
"text-local" variable earlier.

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