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24.3; Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rodrigo Rodrigues <rrodrigues <at> poli.ufrj.br>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 20:55:47 -0300

Shell completion is broken. I'm getting the error:

completion--some: Symbol's value as variable is void: 
comint-last-prompt-overlay
Looking at comint.el I can't find "comint-last-prompt-overlay", but I see:

(defvar comint-last-prompt nil
"Markers pointing to the last prompt.
If non-nil, a cons cell containing markers. The car points to
the start, the cdr to the end of the last prompt recognized.")
So I suppose that "comint-last-prompt-overlay" is gone in favor of 
"comint-last-prompt".

I was using the snapshot packages of emacs:
GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
of 2013-08-22 on louvi, modified by Debian

Now I turned back to the stable 24.3 version, so the configuration
details auto bundled with this mail are not the same.


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Message #10 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3;
 Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2013 11:24:57 +0100 (BST)

Rodrigo Rodrigues <rrodrigues <at> poli.ufrj.br> writes:
> Shell completion is broken. I'm getting the error:
>
> completion--some: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> comint-last-prompt-overlay Looking at comint.el I can't find
> "comint-last-prompt-overlay", but I see:
>
> (defvar comint-last-prompt nil
> "Markers pointing to the last prompt.
> If non-nil, a cons cell containing markers. The car points to
> the start, the cdr to the end of the last prompt recognized.")
> So I suppose that "comint-last-prompt-overlay" is gone in favor of
> "comint-last-prompt".

comint-last-prompt-overlay was removed in order to work around bug
14744.  There are no occurrences to comint-last-prompt within Emacs'
source code any more.

I do not think comint-last-prompt-overlay was supposed to be used by
user code.  It was a defvar without a docstring, right in-between two
function definitions.

        Christopher

Message #13 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3;
 Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2013 19:00:08 +0100 (BST)

Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> writes:
> comint-last-prompt-overlay was removed in order to work around bug
> 14744.  There are no occurrences to comint-last-prompt within Emacs'
                                   of comint-last-prompt-overlay

        Christopher

Message #16 received at 15240-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: 15240-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3;
 Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:26:41 +0100 (BST)

tags 15240 notabug

Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> writes:
> I do not think comint-last-prompt-overlay was supposed to be used by
> user code.  It was a defvar without a docstring, right in-between two
> function definitions.

I do not think this is a bug.  The OP did not respond either.

It would be great if the two hyphens naming convention were applied to
all internals of comint.

        Christopher

Message #19 received at 15240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
Cc: 15240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3;
 Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:32:30 -0400

Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com> writes:
>> I do not think comint-last-prompt-overlay was supposed to be used by
>> user code.  It was a defvar without a docstring, right in-between two
>> function definitions.
>
> I do not think this is a bug.  The OP did not respond either.

It's an obvious bug that someone else happened to fix

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-09/msg00005.html

after this initial, very clear report:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15128

> It would be great if the two hyphens naming convention were applied to
> all internals of comint.

It would be great if people would grep for uses of functions before
deleting them from Emacs.

Message #22 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3;
 Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:51:44 +0100 (BST)

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
> It's an obvious bug that someone else happened to fix

Silly me.  Thanks a lot.

        Christopher

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