From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: p.stephani2@gmail.com
Cc: 30668@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#30668: 27.0.50; Error in `completing-read'
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:51:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmwac80a.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wvr47eqv3ba8.fsf@a.muc.corp.google.com> (p.'s message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:23:27 +0100")
p.stephani2@gmail.com writes:
> emacs -Q --eval='(completing-read "p: " nil)'
>
> Hit <left> <SPC>. An error will be signaled:
>
> completion--some: Args out of range: "", 0, -1
>
> Backtrace is
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "" 0 -1)
> completion-basic-try-completion("" nil nil -1)
> #f(compiled-function (style) #<bytecode 0x3aabd9>)(basic)
> completion--some(#f(compiled-function (style) #<bytecode 0x3aabd9>)
> (basic partial-completion emacs22))
> completion--nth-completion(1 "" nil nil -1 (metadata))
> completion-try-completion("" nil nil -1 (metadata))
> completion--try-word-completion("" nil nil -1 (metadata))
> completion--do-completion(4 4 completion--try-word-completion)
This problem is still present in Emacs 28. I'm not quite sure what the
correct fix is -- just change `completion--do-completion' to not do
completion if `(- (point) beg)' is negative?
Perhaps Stefan has an opinion here; added to the CCs.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-01 18:23 bug#30668: 27.0.50; Error in `completing-read' p.stephani2
2018-03-01 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2021-06-25 14:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-26 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-26 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-26 13:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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