From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kin Cho Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: dabbrev hang Date: 27 May 2003 17:30:24 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7ik7cboqu7.fsf@neoscale.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054082239 8914 80.91.224.249 (28 May 2003 00:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 00:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 02:37:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KowP-0002Jc-00 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:37:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Koxz-0004bB-8A for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19KouG-0001sx-Dg for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19KoqV-0007uU-JB for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-2.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.246]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Kopx-0007TM-7u for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 27 May 2003 20:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQoqog13487 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 00:30:30 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:30:29 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 28 May 2003 02:30:26 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 12.24.46.66!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 13 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.24.46.66 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054081826 4234946 12.24.46.66 (16 [151019]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5181 I call dabbrev-expand while the minibuffer is active (e.g., interactively calling eval-expression), it dabbrev hangs in dabbrev--goto-start-of-abbrev. The reason is that (bobp) is false and (forward-char -1) can't backup into the prompt "M-x ". I'm using emacs 21.3. Thanks. -kin