From a4f1f64ff8401935813886a21d07bf180c4bd47a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:59:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/gui2/complete.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/complete.py b/src/calibre/gui2/complete.py
index 8110618bac..b5c1fc8b3e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/complete.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/complete.py
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ class MultiCompleteComboBox(EnComboBox):
         self.lineEdit().set_add_separator(what)
 
     def show_initial_value(self, what):
+        '''
+        Show an initial value. Handle the case of the initial value being blank
+        correctly (on Qt 4.8.0 having a blank value causes the first value from
+        the completer to be shown, when the event loop runs).
+        '''
         what = unicode(what)
         le = self.lineEdit()
         if not what.strip():