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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/icomplete.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/icomplete.el | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/icomplete.el b/lisp/icomplete.el index 3747ae3d281..8a68df876c1 100644 --- a/lisp/icomplete.el +++ b/lisp/icomplete.el @@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ 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." + "When non-nil, show completions when first prompting for input. +This also means that if you traverse the list of completions with +commands like `C-.' and just hit `C-j' (enter) without typing any +characters, the match under point will be chosen instead of the +default." :type 'boolean :version "24.4") @@ -709,7 +713,10 @@ matches exist." (push comp prospects) (setq limit t)))) (setq prospects (nreverse prospects)) - ;; Decorate first of the prospects. + ;; Return the first match if the user hits enter. + (when icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input + (setq completion-content-when-empty (car prospects))) + ;; Decorate first of the prospects. (when prospects (let ((first (copy-sequence (pop prospects)))) (put-text-property 0 (length first) |