From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj.jangid@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: TAB autocompletion in dired producing error args-out-of-range
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:23:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbltslnhp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2zhhczpvc.fsf@gmail.com> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2019 01:36:31 +0530")
> I have a file "a.txt". The directory is opened in dired. When I try to
> rename it I press R over it and for autocompletion I press "a" and
> <TAB>. I get the following error. Is this behaviour expected?
No, it's clearly not normal.
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "a.txt" 3 2)
> file-name-completion("a" "~/work/temp/" file-exists-p)
I suggest you M-x report-emacs-bug so we get a bug number to track it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-03 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-03 20:06 TAB autocompletion in dired producing error args-out-of-range Pankaj Jangid
2019-11-03 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-11-04 3:24 ` Pankaj Jangid
2019-11-04 5:25 ` Pankaj Jangid
2019-11-04 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-04 17:52 ` Pankaj Jangid
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