================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I'm one of the developers of ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics), http://ESS.r-project.org/ which we have been developing for (too :-) many years and kept working for GNU emacs and Xemacs. One part of ESS is an "inferior" mode very similar to the one initiated by "M-x shell", and based on comint as that one; since the most important ones of the "statistics that ESS speaks" are S-plus and R; nowadays, one of the main applications of ESS is its use as "UI" for R (aka "GNU S") the free statistical language system in use in quite a few places by probably 100'000s of users. --> http://www.R-project.org/ Anyway back to the bug: We use completion via [TAB] and have (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename) as one of the functions in the 'comint-dynamic-complete-functions list. Unfortunately (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename) seems broken: E.g., using M-x shell, type "cd ~/" and then instead of [TAB], do M-: (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename) it does not work, but you get the (error?) message "last thing matched was not a buffer" Our ESS users have been complaining about getting this message, and I have no demonstrated that one gets it because (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename) seems not work as it should. Best regards, Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux athlon.lowpingbastards.de 2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 #1 Sun Mar 27 12:58:31 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-database=berkdb' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--infopath=/usr/share/info/xemacs21' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.17/amd64-debian-linux/mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages' 'amd64-debian-linux' XEmacs 21.4.17 "Jumbo Shrimp" configured for `x86_64-debian-linux'. 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mule lucid-scrollbars cut-buffer lucid-menubars athena-dialogs x c-balloon-help tty-frames tty toolbar native-sound scrollbar unix-processes multicast network-streams subprocesses modules menu-accelerator-support menubar berkeley-db md5 xemacs xim gutter tiff png gif jpeg xface xpm xbm lisp-float-type linux dialog devices window-system base64) Recent keystrokes: ----------------- TAB e TAB RET C-h TAB C-g C-h k TAB button2 button2up button1 button1up button1 button1up button1 button1up button1 button1up C-h f c o m i TAB r TAB e TAB p TAB TAB f TAB RET button1 button1up c d SPC ~ / R / M M-: c o m i n t - r e p l a c e - b y TAB BS - e x p a n d e d - f i l e n e m a BS BS BS a m e RET M-: M-p C-a ( C-e ) RET misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): ----------------------------------- Parsing /u/sfs/Mail/mailrc... done Parsing /u/sfs/Mail/mailrc... Parsing /u/maechler/.mailrc... Loading xemacsbug...done last thing matched was not a buffer Loading xemacsbug... Symbol's value as variable is void: comint-replace-by-expanded-filename Making completion list... Making completion list... Making completion list... Loading view-less...done Loading view-less... Loading cus-face...done Loading cus-face... Quit C-h TAB not defined. ~/R/Pkgs/ Loading shell...done Loading shell... Making completion list...