From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What's happened to M- `completion-at-point'? Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 16:34:38 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83bkwd4xle.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3227"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 18:36:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nmHz4-0000d8-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 18:36:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50648 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmHz3-0003lk-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 12:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmHxb-0002Jg-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 12:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:28005 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmHxZ-0002Xh-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2022 12:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 74480 invoked by uid 3782); 4 May 2022 16:34:39 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15bd7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.91.215]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 May 2022 18:34:38 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4750 invoked by uid 1000); 4 May 2022 16:34:38 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83bkwd4xle.fsf@gnu.org> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.1; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:289194 Archived-At: Hello, Eli. On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 09:32:13 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 21:06:00 +0000 > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Suddenly, my M- `completion-at-point' isn't working. Would > > somebody please explain? > If you press "ESC TAB" instead, what does Emacs do then? I get the message [backtab] is undefined > > This is on a recent master branch build. > > I'm not even entirely sure the problem is in Emacs. Maybe a recent > > update to Linux or the kbd package has messed things up. > Most likely. M-TAB is frequently used by the OS and the WM on > different systems. I'm on the Linux console. It seems that terminfo has started behaving differently, as I outlined in my reply to Lars. There doesn't seem to be any problem in X Windows. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).