[ESS] emacs 24 "woe": file name completion does not work for me
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Nov 15 17:56:59 CET 2012
>>>>> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:47:25 +0100 writes:
>>> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
>>> on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:58:21 +0100 wrote:
VS> Hi Martin,
VS> (add-hook 'completion-at-point-functions 'comint-filename-completion)
VS> adds it globally.
> This seems to not work correctly in some modes. Most notably in
> emacs-mode. Local completion (lisp-completion-at-point) does not pass
> the ball further on, when the completion is not found. It works in gnus
> mail buffer though :)
> This is a bug which I see even in today's pre-release. Will send a
> report.
> Vitalie
Thanks a lot, Vitalie, both for the hint and the bug report.
One thing though ... maybe you mention that in the bug report or
another one:
As I mentioned (visible below),
comint-dynamic-complete is now an *alias* for `completion-at-point'
but completion-at-point does by default *not* include filename
completion which was originally one of *the* important
completion types in comint.
For this reason, I think "they" should have considered either
adding the comint-filename-completion to the
completion-at-point-functions by default, *or* then it's not
valid to make comint-dynamic-complete an alias.
Rather comint-dynamic-complete should then temporarily /
locally add the ..-filename-completion to the completion
functions and then call completion-at-point.
Hence, it would no longer be an alias for but a wrapper around
completion-at-point.
Martin
>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>> on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:33:46 +0100 wrote:
>>> I'm sure some emacs gurus (possibly among ESS core!) will be
>>> able to help quickly,
>>> and I assume it has affected others, that's why I post here.
>>> I'm working with Emacs 23 or Emacs 24, depending on the
>>> computer (OS) I use. I have a habit to use
>>> comint-dynamic-complete very frequently (and have bound it to
>>> C-M-Tab and similar keys as this relates to ESS behavior)
>>> in TODO, README, etc files, and also in *.R (or *.c) files when
>>> referring to other source files.
>>> Now, Help about it in Emacs 24 says
>>> comint-dynamic-complete is an alias for `completion-at-point'.
>>> It is bound to <C-tab>, <C-M-tab>, <f24> TAB, <menu> TAB.
>>> (comint-dynamic-complete)
>>> This function is obsolete since 24.1;
>>> use `completion-at-point' instead.
>>> Perform completion on the text around point.
>>> The completion method is determined by `completion-at-point-functions'.
>>> and if I look at the
>>> completion-at-point-functions
>>> it says
>>> completion-at-point-functions's value is
>>> (tags-completion-at-point-function)
>>> and "of course" that has nothing to do with file name
>>> completion, and so I should not wonder why file name completion
>>> has stopped working for me, since I (am / had to start) using
>>> emacs 24.
>>> Now this makes using Emacs 24 really a much less pleasant
>>> experience for me.
>>> Comments / Hints / Different experiences ?
>>> Thanks in advance:
>>> Martin
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