From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto completion auto-disabling itself Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291835954 1007 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 19:19:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 19:19:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 20:19:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1PQPXi-0005WO-1e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:19:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQPXh-00045u-5i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:19:09 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j9g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.85.37 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275408642 584 127.0.0.1 (1 Jun 2010 16:10:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j9g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.122.85.37; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.54,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178536 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75871 Archived-At: On May 31, 5:31=A0pm, Andrea Crotti wrote: > Andrea Crotti writes: > > I'm a happy auto-complete user, but sometimes I notice that it gets > > disabled by itself. > > > I tried to see if I'm doing something strange in the meanwhile, but > > maybe I just switch to a different buffer, open an overlay or something > > like that. > > > Reenabling auto-complete works fine, but it's strange, and I also don't > > get any message in *Messages*.. > > What could that be? > > Thasks > > No ideas on what could that be? > I notice it very often in python mode unfortunately, I switch to another > buffer, then I come back and it's disabled. > > I think it might also be some strange keystrokes, but I don't see which > one and more important there should not be any keystrokes that disables > AC automatically... > > Maybe I can try to trace the disabling function, to see when and from > what it gets called.. I've noticed it too, and I didn't even have to switch buffers. I think what was happening was an error occurred somewhere in the completion code. The error was caught, but the "handling" was to disable the mode. I never really got to the bottom of it. I installed the newest version (from git) and it's working better.