From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:50:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200506290350.j5T3o7c25749@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120017175 11202 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2005 03:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 05:52:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTcf-0002Tx-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:52:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnTii-0006Ak-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnThz-00066O-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnThv-00063U-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnThu-00060K-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnTgk-0007OY-Dj; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5T3psCK023351; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:51:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j5T3o7c25749; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:50:07 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39849 Richard Stallman wrote: The problem is that try-completion and friends try to handle both lists of symbols and anonymous lambda expressions. Looking at the code, I don't think they do. It does not try to handle a list of symbols--and, because of the conflict you mentioned, it should not try. I think we should document that a simple list of symbols is NOT allowed, but that you can add "" as the first element to make that list into a legitimate completion table. Can you fix your custom thread patch to do that? My latest revised patches no longer make `custom-do-theme-reset' interactive, so that the problem no longer exists. (But it could easily crop up in other places, using lists of symbols for completion appears to be natural). Sincerely, Luc.