From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-completing-read vs XEmacs 21.4
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:35:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pvhppqvp3ogy.fsf@gmx.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84d3rply1n.fsf@davestoy.home>
Dave Goldberg wrote:
>> This is almost certainly because old (for some value of old)
>> versions of Emacs
^,
There was a comma missing here, the old qualifier only applies to
Emacs, all XEmacs versions expect this.
>> and XEmacs expect the second value of try-completion to be an
>> alist and the car of each element is checked for matching.
> [...]
> I'm running 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid
> which I understand is current stable. The doc string for
> try-completion says
[...]
> If COLLECTION is an alist, the cars of the elements of the alist
> (which must be strings) form the set of possible completions.
Yep, this is the cause of the problem you're seeing.
Lawrence
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Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-04 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-04 14:20 Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 14:32 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 15:20 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 15:29 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 15:38 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 16:04 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 16:08 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 16:25 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2010-10-04 16:31 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 16:35 ` Lawrence Mitchell [this message]
2010-10-04 16:37 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 16:54 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2010-10-04 17:47 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 18:28 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-04 20:18 ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-04 21:55 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-10-08 12:14 ` Andrew Cohen
2010-10-08 14:35 ` Julien Danjou
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