[ESS] Command completion (redux)

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for all your help! I still had the alt-ess-complete-object-name 
code in my .emacs and as you surmised, it was having a bad interaction 
with the code that Martin put into ESS. Commenting it out fixed things.

For me the TAB key will now complete function names as well as paths. I 
don't need C-c TAB.

Thanks again for your help.

Best,

Jim


Stephen Eglen wrote:
> James W. MacDonald <jmacdon at med.umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Here is my backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>>   all-completions(nil nil)
>>   comint-dynamic-simple-complete(nil nil)
>>   (or (comint-dynamic-simple-complete token-string
>> possible-completions) (quote none))
>>   (let* ((comint-completion-addsuffix nil) (beg-of-line ...)
>> (end-of-line ...) (line-buffer ...) (token-string ...)
>> (possible-completions ...)) (or (comint-dynamic-simple-complete
>> token-string possible-completions) (quote none)))
>>   alt-ess-complete-object-name()
>>   call-interactively(alt-ess-complete-object-name)
>>
> 
> Thanks Jim; the backtrace is yet again helpful... that bottom line tells
> me that you called alt-ess-complete-object-name -- is that still in your
> .emacs somewhere?
> 
> Since 5.3.7, Martin put this completion code into the official ESS,
> as:
> 
> ;; From Jim (James W.) MacDonald, based on code by Deepayan Sarkar,
> ;; originally named  'alt-ess-complete-object-name'.
> ;; Use rcompgen in ESS
> ;; Can be activated by something like
> ;; (define-key inferior-ess-mode-map "\t" 'ess-R-complete-object-name)
> (defun ess-R-complete-object-name ()  [code deleted]  )
> 
> and that completion code currently seems to be on the "C-c TAB" key,
> rather than the TAB key in *R* buffers.  (Martin: is there a reason it
> should be on C-c TAB, rather than TAB?).  Also, see that the value of
> ess-use-R-completion is non-nil.
> 
> Jim: tell us what "C-h k TAB" and "C-h k C-c TAB" report in an *R*
> buffer.
> 
> Stephen

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