From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion in GUD buffer
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:22:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bh4lgme.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17447.7497.809146.303654@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:01:29 +1200")
> A long time back completion in the GUD buffer changed. Previously if you
> did something like:
> (gdb) b <TAB>
> to complete on all possible locations, when there were too many to fit in
> the completion window, you could click on it to explore down and *up*.
> (I think you can only go down from outside it).
> Now if you click on the completion window you either get an error message:
> Wrong type argument: window-live-p, #<window 7>
> or the window simply disappears.
> I've traced this change to:
> revision 1.294
> date: 2004-04-14 18:57:45 +0000; author: monnier; state: Exp; lines: +185 -195
> Doc fixes.
> (comint-last-input-start, comint-last-input-end)
> (comint-last-output-start): Give them values.
> (comint-arguments): Avoid warning.
> (comint-skip-prompt): Use line-end-position.
> (comint-backward-matching-input): Rename arg to agree with doc.
> (comint-extract-string): Use syntax-ppss.
> (comint-dynamic-simple-complete): Delete useless list construction.
> (comint-redirect-subvert-readonly): New.
> (comint-redirect-preoutput-filter): Use it.
> but there are 91 difference between this file and the previous one.
> Before I wade through them, I'd like to ask if people agree that this
> change in behaviour should be reverted?
I'm not sure which change of behavior you're talking about. AFAIK there's
just a bug, especially the "Wrong type argument: window-live-p, #<window 7>".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-27 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-26 23:01 Completion in GUD buffer Nick Roberts
2006-03-27 3:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-03-27 4:36 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-27 4:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-27 5:40 ` Nick Roberts
2006-03-27 5:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-27 8:55 ` Nick Roberts
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