Feature Request: Auto expand when there is only a single candidate about auto-complete HOT 5 CLOSED

Could you please tell me how do you use this feature?

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I normally have ac-auto-start set to nil. If I bind TAB to ac-start-and-expand-single then hitting TAB will either show a completion menu if there is >1 candidate or immediately do the expansion if there is only a single candidate.

I like this because it works kind of like normal TAB completion: complete if you can, otherwise show me a list to choose from.

This came up because I've been working on using auto-complete to do tab completion in ipython shell mode.

The ac-always-expand-single-p is something I added just to try out when ac-auto-start is 't. It's a bit jarring at times and I'm pretty neutral on this part of the patch. I'd be willing to re-submit the patch without that part if you'd like.

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It seems very good idea.

I'll implement it in more general way.

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Did this ever get implemented in a more general way?

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The current implementation includes this feature already. So close this issue.

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