Re: gcc tab completion strangeness

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> I looks quite ugly.
>> Yes, I'd rather not hard code that much info about BBDB-internals in
>> message.el.  Can you try the patch below instead, which should work
>> about as well, but without relying on internal knowledge about BBDB?
> In my brief testing your patch below works great - thanks for looking
> into this!

Must have been about as brief as my testing, indeed, since my patch
uses != which doesn't exist (it's called /= is Elisp).


        Stefan ;-)


=== modified file 'lisp/gnus/message.el'
--- lisp/gnus/message.el	2011-01-25 04:08:28 +0000
+++ lisp/gnus/message.el	2011-01-31 15:04:55 +0000
@@ -7867,7 +7867,12 @@
 	 (eudc-expand-inline))
 	((and (memq 'bbdb message-expand-name-databases)
 	      (fboundp 'bbdb-complete-name))
-	 (bbdb-complete-name))
+         (let ((starttick (buffer-modified-tick)))
+           (or (bbdb-complete-name)
+               ;; Apparently, bbdb-complete-name can return nil even when
+               ;;  completion took place.  So let's double check the buffer was
+               ;;  not modified.
+               (/= starttick (buffer-modified-tick)))))
 	(t
 	 (expand-abbrev))))