selection process starts again from the user's $HOME.")
(defcustom icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input nil
- "When non-nil, show completions when first prompting for input.
+ "If nil, don't wait for completions before showing the prompt.
+Instead, when there's no input, completions may be displayed
+asynchronously later, when the completions have been computed.
+
+If non-nil, always compute the completions first.
+
This also means that if you traverse the list of completions with
commands like `C-.' and just hit RET without typing any
characters, the match under point will be chosen instead of the