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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2020-12-04 11:33:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2020-12-04 12:15:29 +0100 |
| commit | f352c57972d24464a42ea3e65dc8ac07d8e0517c (patch) | |
| tree | da652d22d859e08a6a1312a78ef27c047c613964 /lisp | |
| parent | b3d315efc210d47b22791dd938e6354bcb0f089c (diff) | |
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Clarify icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input doc string
* lisp/icomplete.el (icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input): Clarify
the meaning of the variable (bug#19031).
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/icomplete.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/icomplete.el b/lisp/icomplete.el index 4e546807b7f..9c1470812ab 100644 --- a/lisp/icomplete.el +++ b/lisp/icomplete.el @@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ everything preceding the ~/ is discarded so the interactive selection process starts again from the user's $HOME.") (defcustom icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input nil - "When non-nil, show completions when first prompting for input. + "If nil, don't wait for completions before showing the prompt. +Instead, when there's no input, completions may be displayed +asynchronously later, when the completions have been computed. + +If non-nil, always compute the completions first. + This also means that if you traverse the list of completions with commands like `C-.' and just hit RET without typing any characters, the match under point will be chosen instead of the |