From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/72512 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lawrence Mitchell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-completing-read vs XEmacs 21.4 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:35:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <84bp7aujik.fsf@davestoy.home> <8462xiugqp.fsf@davestoy.home> <84zkuut1bj.fsf@davestoy.home> <84iq1ikkpp.fsf@davestoy.home> <84d3rply1n.fsf@davestoy.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286210209 5999 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2010 16:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:36:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20884@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 04 18:36:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P2o1v-0008Mq-Kc for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P2o1u-00075b-JH; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P2o1t-00075G-5E for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P2o1s-0003Fe-63 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P2o1r-0006yy-00 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:43 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P2o1r-0008Mc-Bl for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:43 +0200 Original-Received: from garnet.epcc.ed.ac.uk ([129.215.56.222]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:43 +0200 Original-Received: from wence by garnet.epcc.ed.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:36:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.epcc.ed.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oJIZSwEVZgn4pU8+IBLBvLYvwZA= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:72512 Archived-At: 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 -- Lawrence Mitchell