0. Install the GNU ELPA packages company and gnu-elpa. 1. emacs -Q 2. M-x package-initialize and M-x toggle-debug-on-error 3. C-x b a M-x company-mode (switch to buffer "a" in fundamental-mode and enable company-mode there) 4. Type three arbitrary letters, e.g. dkf 5. On typing the third letter, the following prompt appears in the echo area: "Install package all? (yes or no) ". Type "no". ==> This raises the error "Abort!" and pops up a *Backtrace* buffer, whose content is attached. Looking at the backtrace here is what I think happens (though I couldn't actually get Edebug to stop execution before the prompt in step 5): company-dabbrev--fetch call company-dabbrev--search, in which the sexp `(eq other-buffer-modes 'all)' is evaluated as t ('all being the default value of company-dabbrev-other-buffers), and this causes gnu-elpa--perform-autoload (in gnu-elpa-utils.el) to be invoked, which invokes the install package prompt in step 5 because the symbol `all' is in gnu-elpa-features.el (from the GNU ELPA package "all"). It would not be unreasonable to lay the blame for this problem on the "all" package with its namespace-unclean autoloaded command `all' (naming it something like `all-show' would have avoided the problem). However, the pcase code in company-dabbrev--fetch actually triggers the problem, and `M-x eval-buffer' on company-dabbrev.el points to why: that invocation issues the warning "pcase pattern `all shadowed by previous pcase pattern". The attached patch (I don't have a local clone of the company package repo, so it's just a plain diff) avoids both this warning and the problematic interaction with gnu-elpa--perform-autoload. This patch uses 'all instead of `all, since they are the same for symbols in pcase patterns, and replaces `t by _, in accordance with (info "(elisp) pcase Macro"). In addition, the patch fixes a typo in the defcustom `company-dabbrev-other-buffers' that prevents choosing "Function to return similar major-modes" from the value menu. In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.43, cairo version 1.18.2) of 2024-10-05 built on strobelfssd Repository revision: 4c7a6dc1a0ce8fe7bb603c907efb52d2ecf30858 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101013 System Description: Linux From Scratch r12.2-17-systemd Configured using: 'configure -C 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3' PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/qt6/lib/pkgconfig' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG LCMS2 LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB