The canonical source for this seems to be
"https://sites.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/Emacs/ That file says "This hasn't been updated in a while, and it is not likely to be updated any time soon." The last file revision is 2005. This bug has been open for 8 years with no progress, and seems to make highlight-completion unusable. Therefore this file should be removed from emacs-goodies-el before the next stable release. d