From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bugs in newly added completion capabilities. Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119985581 13287 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 19:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 21:06:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLNf-0006mL-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:04:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLVY-0000w7-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLQS-000718-GY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLM0-00067x-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnLLs-00061L-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnLDQ-0005pq-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DnL7R-0004xK-Qc; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:47:37 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200506280227.j5S2Rln23310@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:27:47 -0500 (CDT)) 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:39810 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39810 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?