The current code for address completion takes the list of possible completions (whether generated internally or externally), makes the first match the initial value for the completion, and puts all the others (but not the first match) into the possible completions. This has the nice effect that the <down> key takes you immediately to the next completion (whereas if the first match were included in the possible completions it would take you to the first match again). However, it has two side effects. First, once you have completed to the full match you find it says and try completing again you get told "no match" not "sole completion". Secondly, if you delete some of the text and try completing you don't get the first match as an option. This tries to get round most of these problems by including the full list of possible completions, but with the first match moved to the very end of the list. --- Jani found this bug/odd behaviour on irc: it shows up particularly when resending/bouncing a message as we don't have a company mode option for that yet. It seems that the bahaviour dates back to the first introduction of address completion in 2010. I don't think this there is a perfect solution but this seems like an improvement. Best wishes Mark emacs/notmuch-address.el | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-address.el b/emacs/notmuch-address.el index 10eaab1..b2e1fba 100644 --- a/emacs/notmuch-address.el +++ b/emacs/notmuch-address.el @@ -194,7 +194,14 @@ external commands." (t (funcall notmuch-address-selection-function (format "Address (%s matches): " num-options) - (cdr options) (car options)))))) + ;; We put the first match as the initial + ;; input; we put all the matches as + ;; possible completions, moving the + ;; first match to the end of the list + ;; makes cursor up/down in the list work + ;; better. + (append (cdr options) (list (car options))) + (car options)))))) (if chosen (progn (push chosen notmuch-address-history) -- 2.1.4