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24.4; icomplete fails to insert character with C-x 8

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19474: closed (24.4; icomplete fails to insert character with
 C-x 8)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:13:02 +0000

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From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.4; icomplete fails to insert character with C-x 8
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:54:53 +0000

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* I started emacs with emacs -Q -nw
* I turned on icomplete by typing ESC x i c o m p l e t e RET
* I attempted to insert my favorite character, "PILE OF POO", by typing C-x
8 RET p i l e RET
* I saw an error in the echo area: read-char-by-name: Invalid character
* I did not see my beloved character in the current buffer



In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2014-10-22 on ip-10-172-239-100
Repository revision: rgm <at> gnu.org-20141020192115-57qyk6ygie4c15vx
System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Configured using:
 `configure --without-x'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  icomplete-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 8 3 ; 4 0 1 0 0 ; 0 c ESC x i c o m p l e t
e RET C-x 8 RET p i l e RET C-h l ESC x r e p o r t
- e m a c s - RET

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Source file `/mnt/emacs/lisp/cus-start.el' newer than byte-compiled file
read-char-by-name: Invalid character
Type C-x 1 to delete the help window.
Source file `/mnt/emacs/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el' newer than byte-compiled file

Load-path shadows:
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/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-edt hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt
/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/ws-mode hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/ws-mode
/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-mapper hides
/mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper
/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/crisp hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/crisp
/mnt/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-compat hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/cc-compat
/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/vi hides /mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/vi
/mnt/emacs/lisp/emulation/tpu-extras hides
/mnt/emacs/lisp/obsolete/tpu-extras

Features:
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Memory information:
((conses 8 179617 4242)
 (symbols 24 36393 0)
 (miscs 20 37 136)
 (strings 16 77064 5781)
 (string-bytes 1 1408331)
 (vectors 8 8547)
 (vector-slots 4 409862 15748)
 (floats 8 60 609)
 (intervals 28 165 25)
 (buffers 512 12)
 (heap 1024 14171 1298))

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From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 19474-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#19474: 24.4; icomplete fails to insert character with C-x 8
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:12:40 +1100

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>> > Yes, there are.  Icomplete's C-j does not have the same 
>> > behavior as RET.  If Icomplete treated RET the way it treats 
>> > C-j then that would mean that you could never input anything 
>> > that matched a completion candidate, without choosing that 
>> > match.
>> >
>> > IOW, it would remove the possibility of lax completion.
>> 
>> Okay, so then this bug report should be closed, since things 
>> are "working as designed". Does anyone have any objections to 
>> closing?
>
> Yes, IMO it should be closed.  But I don't decide these things.

A week has passed and there's been no objection, so i'm tagging 
this as 'notabug' and closing.


Alexis.

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