Hi,

I'm also interrested in this feature. Indeed, exporting rl_forced_update_display() is the only way I've found to make readline.set_completion_display_matches_hook() working properly. Without forcing the redisplay, the prompt is not displayed. This seems to be the proper function to call, because that's the one called at the end of display_matches() in libreadline code, which is the default function for displaying matches.

The attached file is a simple example code derived from http://pymotw.com/2/readline/ that shows that the patch is working.