Re: bug in xemacs ilisp module

Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:52:24 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.devel,gmane.lisp.ilisp.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ILISP questions are better asked the ilisp mailing lists.

I forwarded it there.

Cheers

Marco



On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 09:39 America/New_York, Paul Landes wrote:

> XEmacs version: 21.4.10
> ILISP version: V5.12.0
> CMU Common Lisp version: 18e-pre, built 2003-01-26
> Problem:
> 1. Start XEmacs: xemacs -q
> 2. Invoke the inferior shell: (progn (require 'shell) (shell))
> 3. Load the ilisp module: (progn (require 'ilisp) (cmulisp))
> 4. Go to the inferior shell buffer and partial complete a binary: 
> make<TAB>
>
> Normal behavior would put a message in the minibuffer 'Partial 
> complete' and
> then 'Press space to flush' and display a completion list for the 
> binary
> (i.e. 'makeindex', 'make', 'makeinfo') etc.
>
> Instead, '(No completions)' is written to the shell buffer and the 
> completion
> buffer does not come up.
>
> I suspect it has something to do with ilisp completion clobbering 
> comint
> module variables that the shell module uses.
>
> I have tried to add:
> (provide 'completer)
> (provide 'comint-ipc)
>
> before the ilisp module is loaded but this didn't work either.
>
> I don't know how your bug process works, so can you send me an email 
> about
> this issue or direct me to a resource about your process?
>
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Paul Landes
> [email protected]
>
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