Subject: bug#74617: 30.0.92; ffap-menu always displays the *Completions* buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:17:31 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>         "[email-masked]"
> 	<[email-masked]>,
>         "[email-masked]"
> 	<[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:30:35 +0000
> 
> > > The pattern where completion commands want to display candidates
> > > immediately is not uncommon. There are ffap, tmm and multiple
> > > third-party packages which have such a requirement. So I suggest to not
> > > necessarily treat "immediate candidate display" as a bug report, but
> > > rather as a feature request for `completing-read'.
> > 
> > And imenu.el calls minibuffer-completion-help conditionally
> > unless imenu-eager-completion-buffer is not nil.
> 
> `minibuffer-completion-help' is above all a user
> command.
> 
> Why should any code call `minibuffer-completion-help',
> other than code in minibuffer.el, or code in a command
> whose purpose is (at least partly) to show *Completions*?

We are talking here about a command that explicitly wants to show
*Completions*.