From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5495: 23.1.90; symbol completion fails Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:53:03 -0600 Message-ID: <878wbgfm6o.fsf@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264815317 23974 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 01:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: 5495@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 02:35:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2Ey-0001Gy-U2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2Ey-0003i2-F6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2Et-0003gu-89 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58609 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2Es-0003gO-Qs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2Er-0000sD-EN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49476) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2Er-0000s9-6N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1sX-0005wQ-KT; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:12:01 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Roland Winkler Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 5495 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.126481391322823 (code B ref -1); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jan 2010 01:11:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1sO-0005w4-SG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1af-0005gd-Nl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:60313) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1ab-0004cr-Nq for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:53:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1aa-0005xk-Cp for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.164.197]:8564) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb1aZ-0005wo-SV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:53:28 -0500 Original-Received: from regnitz.physics.niu.edu (adsl-68-77-0-1.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net [68.77.0.1]) by tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0777A22D44 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:53:13 +0100 (CET) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:11:51 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:12:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34809 Archived-At: I am having trouble with symbol completion. The lisp manual says about `try-completion' The value of COLLECTION must be a list of strings or symbols, an alist, an obarray, ... So the following works well (try-completion "foo" '("bar" baz)) ; fine (try-completion "foo" '((bar) baz)) ; fine Yet the following example fails (try-completion "foo" '(bar baz)) ; fails because it tries to interpret (bar baz) as a call of function bar using arg baz. Shouldn't the last example work, too? Or am I missing something? I thought I had used symbol completion before. But now I cannot get it to work anymore. Thanks, Roland In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2009-12-12 on regnitz