GNU bug report logs - #14300
24.3; comint-dynamic-complete-functions breaks

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: 14300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14300: 24.3; comint-dynamic-complete-functions breaks
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:39:10 +0800

This looks like a regression to me.

The semantics of comint-dynamic-complete-functions has changed between
emacs-24 and previous releases.

Previously entries are tried one after another to perform completion
i.e. actually perform the completion.

With the new semantics it only does the first one because it will always
(99% cases) succeed (getting the completion-table nearly always
succeeds).

This is unfortunate because a lot of modes rely on the previous
behaviour to provide rich completions for comint based modes.

I noticed this bug because file completion no longer works in
octave-mode.

Leo
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