Re: completion-auto-help

[Stefan Monnier]

> Not sure what you mean.  Do you mean to check, inside the hook, whether
> that var is non-nil, and use that test to determine whether or not we are
> completing?  That is, use (not (null minibuffer-completion-table)) as
> a kind of `completing-p'?

Yes.

> If that's what you mean, it doesn't seem to work -
> `minibuffer-completion-table' is not nil, even when doing things like
> read-from-minibuffer (which doesn't use completion).

That's rather odd.  Can you show a recipe to reproduce it?


        Stefan