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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 |