[ESS] filename completion problem

[Giovanni d'Ario]

One final (I promise!) observation: I've tried the ESS releases from 
5.2.0 to 5.2.6 and I've observed that the problem occurs starting from 
5.2.4. The previous releases don't show any problem.

Giovanni

Martin Maechler wrote:

>I try to summarize what I've learned till now:
>
>Giovanni did and said the following:
>
> - uses R 2.0.1 and Emacs 21.3.1 under Debian Sarge.
>
> - tried both the packaged version of ESS (ess-5.2.5-1 "debian")
>   and the tar.gz (5.2.6) manually configured as indicated in the README.
>
> - ``When I press tab to complete a filename the
>       answer is "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" ''
>
> - `` ESC TAB gives the same problem. 
>      C-c TAB apparently has no effect. ''
>
> - `` if I press "Complete File Name" in the Complete menu, it
>      works fine! ''
>
>- - - -
>
>But you didn't tell us *when* this happens: 
>Are you inside a *R* buffer, or are you editing a *.R file
>(as you should be doing 95% of the time ;-)
>
>Also, I found myself that it's pretty hard *not* to use a
>debian-installed ESS version -- it's directory is added to the
>emacs load path ``long before'' a user ~/.emacs or any user "M-x
>..." command comes into play.  
>
>Did you uninstall the debian ess package before using the
>*.tar.gz one?  If you didn't, I'm pretty sure you were still
>using the debian one even though you explicitly loaded another
>ess-site.el file.
>
>Try  
>     M-x locate-library  ess
>
>to find out from where emacs is getting the ESS parts.
>
>Regards,
>Martin
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