[slime-devel] slime repl prompt's intangible property

[Hertog, Pieter den]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for Slime!  I am using it to
take my first baby-steps into the wonderful Lisp.

At the moment I have a small problem with symbol
completion at the repl prompt and I was wondering
whether I am the only one with the problem or just the
only one without an elegant solution (not unlikely).

Example:

CL-USER> *f <TAB>  -> choose *features* and hit RETURN

will get me an 'args-out-of-range' error.

The error seems due to the fact that hitting return in 
the emacs completions buffer ends up calling simple.el's

  `choose-completion-delete-max-match'

whose code doesn't cater for the buffer containing text
with text property `intangible' nearby the symbol to 
be completed.  That is, it uses (forward-char 1) and 
assumes point is moved forward 1 char, which is not true 
when point is in slime's repl prompt.

My current solution (other than using slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol)
is to:

(add-hook 'slime-repl-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (set (make-local-variable 'inhibit-point-motion-hooks) t)))

in my .emacs file.

I was wondering if there is a better solution.

thanks in advance,

--
pieter