Unicode substitution broken with helm

[non-Jedi]

@giordano reports:

Yes, "\alph" for me is completed to "\alpha", not "α", further pressing M-C-i does nothing. Not sure it's relevant, but I use Helm. I also have auto-complete installed, but doesn't seem the mode is active in my julia buffer.

Locally, I've confirmed that with only julia-mode installed, C-M-i correctly completes "\alph" to "α". If helm is installed with the following minimal config, C-M-i completes "\alph" to "\alpha":

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

(package-install 'julia-mode)

(package-install 'helm)
(helm-mode 1)

This seems like a re-occurrence of emacs-helm/helm#2356, but more investigation is needed.

[non-Jedi]

Ran the snippet from emacs-helm/helm#2356, and this issue is not the same as emacs-helm/helm#2356; :exit-function is properly called with 'finished. Will need to do some more digging to figure out what's going on here.

[non-Jedi]

Workaround until this issue is resolved is to manually call expand-abbrev (C-x ' in default emacs keybindings) after completing a latex symbol or enable abbrev-mode.

[MasonProtter]

For anyone else running into this, another solution is just to revert to the version of julia-emacs before all the completion changes from the PR #185 were introduced. I use commit 7aafa8e which also fixes #188

[MasonProtter]

#196 appears to fix it too

[non-Jedi]

Reopening per #206 (comment)

[non-Jedi]

So the current issue is that \alph<TAB> calls :exit-function with 'finished whereas \alpha<TAB> calls :exit-function with 'exact. According to the docstring for completion-extra-properties, this is a helm bug since the text may not "be further completed". This bug, unlike the one fixed in #206 is a similar but more specific version of emacs-helm/helm#2356.

[non-Jedi]

Thierry fixed things on the helm side (emacs-helm/helm#2646). Could you please check again that the issue is fixed for you with latest master of helm @giordano?