Hi David,

      Keegan Carruthers-Smith posted a patch with a suggested
      change for this in id:m2r1wrxin8.fsf@gmail.com. Could you
      try that and see if it addresses your concerns?

      That patch is now in HEAD, but I presume not yet in a
      release.

Yes that patch fixes the issue in Helm. My mistake for searching the
list archives for "helm" but not for "ivy"! I had suspected the issue
might be similar for other completion frameworks and Keegan confirms
this.

Ori