old-menu-complete behavior in bash v4 / readline v6

[Alan]

Hi,

I prefer the pre-readline-6.0 version of menu completion, so I tried
using the "old-menu-complete" option in bash v4 / readline v6.

However, "old-menu-complete" doesn't behave exactly like
"menu-complete" did in bash v3 / readline v5.

For example, in bash v3:

$ mkdir directory
$ touch directory/{a,b,c,d,e}
$ less directory/    [invoke "menu-complete" command]
$ less directory/a  [invoke "menu-complete" command]
$ less directory/b

In bash v4, using "old-menu-complete":

$ mkdir directory
$ touch directory/{a,b,c,d,e}
$ less directory/    [invoke "old-menu-complete" command]
a b c d e
$ less directory/a

In other words, in bash v3, "menu-complete" basically just cycles
through the possible matches, WITHOUT displaying all the possible
matches before the first cycle. However, in bash v4,
"old-menu-complete" displays ALL possible matches before cycling
through the matches on the command line.

Is there a way I can get "old-menu-complete" in bash v4 to match the
behavior of "menu-complete" in bash v3 exactly in this regard?


Thanks for your help,
Alan