Subject: Re: bug#15240: 24.3; Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:32:30 -0400

Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Christopher Schmidt <[email-masked]> 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.