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28.0.50; choose-completion fails

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To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47766: closed (28.0.50; choose-completion fails)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 11:00:02 +0000

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From: Madhu <enometh <at> meer.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; choose-completion fails
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:33:08 +0530 (IST)

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, Motif Version 2.3.8, cairo version 1.16.0)
 of 2021-04-14 built on maher
based on master 844b8949a71f180d395a237c768b22d91cf91ded
(with the motif revert reverted)

1. emacs -Q -eval '(setq pop-up-windows nil pop-up-frames t)'
2. C-x b TAB

this would pop up a new *Completions* buffer in a new frame
with are two choices *Messages* and *scratch*

3. choose a completion (click or hit enter on one of the choices)

user-error: Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Madhu <enometh <at> meer.net>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, larsi <at> gnus.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, gregory <at> heytings.org,
 47766-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47766: 28.0.50; choose-completion fails
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 10:59:43 +0000

Hello, Madhu.

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:16:39 +0530, Madhu wrote:
> *  Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> <87a6p942l9.fsf <at> gnus.org>
> Wrote on Wed, 05 May 2021 17:33:54 +0200
> > Madhu <enometh <at> meer.net> writes:
> >> Thank you.  I'm running it now and will let you know if i spot
> >> anything.
> > This was almost two weeks ago -- did the patch work well?

> Yes. I haven't seen any problems (though I can't claim to have tested
> all the corner cases)

Thanks for the testing!  I wouldn't worry about the corner cases too
much.  As far as the minibuffer goes, corner cases constitute a near
infinite set.  ;-(

I'm closing the bug with this post.  If any more problems turn up in
this area, please report them in a new bug.  Thanks!

> ---Madhu

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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