From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#5765: Strange things happens with C-v in read-file-name Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: <87iq8l1mbc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87eij9r6hu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269463655 9461 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2010 20:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5765@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 24 21:47:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1NuXU7-00064Y-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:47:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuXU7-0005dc-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuXRq-0004nH-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56600 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuXRo-0004ma-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuXRn-0000YI-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.94]:39659) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuXRn-0000YE-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014175.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o2OKiubf031500 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3BD8C011; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:44:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:28:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:122627 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: >> Please bisect your customizations to find the minimally reproducible >> test case. > > I have not been able to do that. However I know that I get the same > problem with for example > > M-: (completing-read "my prompt: " '("a" "b")) > > I can't find any involved variable that looks suspect. Could you maybe > come up with something to check? If this is so simple to reproduce with customizations, I don't see why it should be so difficult to bisect the customizations and find the problem. It's far easier than asking others to deduce the bug from first principles.