emacs -q M-x ffap-bindings C-xC-f .r TAB (or any other prefix while trying to complete a filename in the minibuffer) gives an error because completion-embedded-envvar-table is an 'undefined function'. Here's the backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function completion-embedded-envvar-table) completion-embedded-envvar-table(#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/" nil) try-completion(#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) completion-embedded-envvar-table "~/") complete-with-action(nil completion-embedded-envvar-table #("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/") #[(G88405 G88406 string pred action) "Å J\n $†Å\fJ\n $‡" [action G88406 string pred G88405 complete-with-action] 5](--b-- --a-- #("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/" nil) apply(#[(G88405 G88406 string pred action) "Å J\n $†Å\fJ\n $‡" [action G88406 string pred G88405 complete-with-action] 5] --b-- --a-- (#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/" nil)) read-file-name-internal(#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/" nil) ffap-read-file-or-url-internal(#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) "~/" nil) try-completion(#("~/.r" 0 2 (auto-composed t) 2 3 (auto-composed t) 3 4 (auto-composed t)) ffap-read-file-or-url-internal "~/") minibuffer--do-completion() minibuffer-complete() call-interactively(minibuffer-complete nil nil) completing-read("Find file or URL: " ffap-read-file-or-url-internal "~/" nil ("~/" . 2) (file-name-history) nil) ffap-read-file-or-url("Find file or URL: " nil) byte-code("ƒ Â\nÄ †Å ‰‰ƒÆ ˆ\"‡" [ffap-url-regexp guess ffap-read-file-or-url "Find file or URL: " "Find file: " ffap-guesser ffap-highlight] 4) ffap-prompter() find-file-at-point() call-interactively(find-file-at-point nil nil) In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of 2008-04-12 on rivendell configured using `configure '--without-x' '--enable-maintaner-mode'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Debugger Minor modes in effect: menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC x f f a p TAB p TAB DEL DEL p - b TAB RET C-x C-f . e TAB C-g ESC x t o o g DEL DEL g g l e - d e TAB e r TAB RET C-x C-f . r TAB C-p C-@ C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n ESC w C-g ESC x r e p o r TAB RET Recent messages: ("emacs" "-q") For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. try-completion: Symbol's function definition is void: completion-embedded-envvar-table Quit Debug on Error enabled globally Entering debugger... Quit