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

lucas jimenez [16/Aug  8:27pm GMT] wrote:
> 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.

I'm not completely sure what you think is wrong and how you think it
should work.  Can you write steps to reproduce the problem, ending with
"expected behaviour" and "actual behaviour", please?

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Sean Whitton