[slime-devel] Re: slime.el `slime-expand-abbreviations-and-complete'

[Madhu]

* Edi Weitz <ubqm5s6jt.fsf at agharta.de> :
| On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:05:02 +0100, Helmut Eller wrote:
|>> The fix that gets rid of the bogus `unambiguous-completion-length'
|>> is appended.
|>
|> I don't use this myself, but I committed your patch anyway.
|
| I just updated and I have to say I very much prefer the previous
| version (and I never had problems with it).

Can you please test the following scenario with your origial setup,
and let me know if you get a different result?

From <m3fybn7v8c.fsf at robolove.meer.net>
>
> (setq  slime-complete-symbol-function 'slime-complete-symbol*
>        slime-complete-symbol*-fancy nil
>        pop-up-windows nil
>        pop-up-frames nil)
> 
> In the slime-repl buffer at the prompt, put the string "swank::c-s"
> and type TAB or M-TAB, and choose any item, say
> swank::compilation-speed. On finding your way back to the repl buffer,
> you see the garbled text.
> 
> For eg; if the string was "(swank::c-s" M-TAB,
(or Esc Tab)
> on finding your way back to the repl buffer, you'll see:
>   "swank::compilation-speed-s"  and no paren.

Does your input get garbled? (I had convinced myself before posting
that fix that the existing code was wrong, and wish to know what I'm
missing, Thanks)
--
Madhu