Re: completion discrepancy between default completion and helm/ivy completions

[Stefan Monnier]

>         (let ((completion (try-completion beforepoint table pred)))
>           (if (not (stringp completion))
>               completion

This case is for when `completion` is t (when means that `beforepoint`
is a valid candidate and there is no further completion possible).

> I would like to fix org-contacts so that it works well all the time.
> Should it directly return a cons of the string and its length?

No, returning such a cons would be a bug and I'm pretty sure it would
break the default completion code at least.


        Stefan