This bug occurs in 27.2 but not in 26.3 In a clean emacs "emacs -q --no-site-file": 1. Enable dynamic completion "(dynamic-completion-mode)" 2. Open a c++ source file 3. Text should be: foo() { std::cerr < int i = static_cast(z); } 4. Position the cursor directly after the "<" and type "< " (two characters "<" " " 5. I get this error message: "Scan error: containing expression ends prematurely, 22, 22" In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20) of 2021-06-02 built on catb Windowing system distributor 'AT&T Laboratories Cambridge', version 11.0.3332 System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Loading completions from file /home/ruttenberg/.emacs.d/completions . . . Loading completions from file /home/ruttenberg/.emacs.d/completions . . . Done. You can run the command ‘dynamic-completion-mode’ with M-x dy-m RET Loading completions from file /home/ruttenberg/.emacs.d/completions . . . Done. Error in pre-command-hook (completion-before-command): (scan-error "Containing expression ends prematurely" 16 16) symbol-before-point: Scan error: "Containing expression ends prematurely", 17, 17 Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/opt/emacs-27.2' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS FREETYPE HARFBUZZ XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: C++//l Minor modes in effect: dynamic-completion-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date subr-x seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs cl-loaddefs cl-lib cus-start cus-load completion tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 76735 9686) (symbols 48 9655 1) (strings 32 23478 2066) (string-bytes 1 843632) (vectors 16 13035) (vector-slots 8 166467 11092) (floats 8 22 45) (intervals 56 208 3) (buffers 1000 14))