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30.0.92; tmm always displays the *Completions* buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 74616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#74616: 30.0.92; tmm always displays the *Completions* buffer
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:04:48 +0200

> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:42:33 +0100
> From:  Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> The `tmm-add-prompt' function of tmm.el automatically displays the
> *Completions* buffer by calling `minibuffer-completion-help'. If an
> alternative minibuffer completion system like Icomplete or Vertico is
> used, the *Completions* buffer is not needed since the candidates are
> already displayed in the minibuffer. I propose to either detect these
> alternative completion systems (e.g., by checking the value of the
> completing-read-function and/or the mode variables) or to provide a new
> customization variable `tmm-display-completions' which defaults to t but
> can be set to nil to disable the call to `minibuffer-completion-help'. I
> am happy to provide a patch for either of these approaches.

I think the automatic detection is a better default behavior, but
maybe we could have a variable (not necessarily a defcustom) for users
who would like to have the old behavior.

Stefan, WDYT?

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