bug#81641: 32.0.50; completion-auto-help 'visible and 'always doesn't indicate it's been completed in minibuffer completion

lucas jimenez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

When using completion-auto-help 'visible or 'always, and the
completions window gets open because there are a lot of candidates,
after the completion has been realized the one candidate still gets
displayed not closing the *Completions* window and not showing the
message [Sole completion].

After the only candidate has been completed if you move the cursor one
back and try to complete again, the message [Sole completion] appears and the
completions window closes.

In buffer completion this doesn't happens (I don't know if it is the
same system)

The message `[Sole completion]` is useful and also the closing of the window as an indication.

Tested with:

emacs -Q --eval "(setq completion-auto-help 'always)"

And:

emacs -Q --eval "(setq completion-auto-help 'visible)"

By doing ~/.emacs.d/e TAB -> and it displays elpa/ early-init.el as candidates and then typing character `a` it completes to early-init.el and the message [Sole completion] can't be seen and the window lingers.

Thanks


In GNU Emacs 32.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0, NS
appkit-2113.65 Version 12.7.6 (Build 21H1320)) of 2026-08-10 built on
mcbata
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2113
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