GNU bug report logs - #15240
24.3; Shell completion error: comint-last-prompt-overlay

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rodrigo Rodrigues <rrodrigues <at> poli.ufrj.br>

Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 00:04:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, patch

Merged with 15128

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.3.50

Done: fgallina <at> gnu.org

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
Cc: 15240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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.
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