From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,
arstoffel@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
59956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:21:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec23ed3e9582f6be3f7e@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iliiv0yv.fsf@gnu.org>
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>> Starting from "emacs -Q -f -eshell", type "echo $exec-path " (note the
>> trailing space), and then hit TAB. The result is this error:
>>
>> pcomplete-match: Wrong type argument: stringp, ("/usr/bin" ...)
>>
>> This is a regression from Emacs 28, and it looks like it's due to
>> 'pcomplete-here-using-help' assuming that all the pcomplete args are
>> strings. However, 'exec-path' is a list (and Eshell reports it this way
>> to pcomplete), so the completion fails. I think all that's necessary is
>> checking that the pcomplete args are strings in
>> 'pcomplete-here-using-help', but I know next to nothing about
>> pcomplete...
>
> Adding Stefan, who should know more about pcomplete.
>
> Stefan, any suggestions?
>
I'm still not Stefan, but this bug is fixed by the attached patch.
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From 60416d39cda3ebf336bdb77487d3b7d8d429f1b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:16:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Check that arguments are strings in pcomplete-here-using-help
* lisp/pcomplete.el (pcomplete-here-using-help): Check that
pcomplete-args are strings before applying string operations on
them. Fixes bug#59956 and bug#60021.
---
lisp/pcomplete.el | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/pcomplete.el b/lisp/pcomplete.el
index 4e3a88bbda8..c63c490bcaa 100644
--- a/lisp/pcomplete.el
+++ b/lisp/pcomplete.el
@@ -1449,12 +1449,18 @@ pcomplete-here-using-help
The switches are obtained by calling `pcomplete-from-help' with
COMMAND and ARGS as arguments."
(while (cond
- ((string= "--" (pcomplete-arg 1))
+ ((let ((arg (pcomplete-arg 1)))
+ (if (stringp arg)
+ (string= "--" arg)))
(while (pcomplete-here (pcomplete-entries))))
- ((pcomplete-match "\\`--[^=]+=\\(.*\\)" 0)
+ ((let ((arg (pcomplete-arg 0)))
+ (if (stringp arg)
+ (pcomplete-match "\\`--[^=]+=\\(.*\\)" 0)))
(pcomplete-here (pcomplete-entries)
(pcomplete-match-string 1 0)))
- ((string-prefix-p "-" (pcomplete-arg 0))
+ ((let ((arg (pcomplete-arg 0)))
+ (if (stringp arg)
+ (string-prefix-p "-" arg)))
(pcomplete-here (apply #'pcomplete-from-help command args)))
(t (pcomplete-here* (pcomplete-entries))))))
--
2.35.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-12 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-11 1:25 bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation Jim Porter
2022-12-11 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-11 8:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-11 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-12 22:21 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-12-12 22:37 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-12 23:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 11:20 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-16 6:09 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-16 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-16 14:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 1:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 2:15 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-19 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 15:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 22:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-21 6:32 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-21 9:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-29 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 10:31 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-19 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 18:04 ` Jim Porter
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