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emacs 18.56 " [No completions]" message in minibuffer-completion-help

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From: "Jonathan I. Kamens"
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 11:38
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In GNU Emacs 18.55.111 of Fri Jan 25 1991 on pit-manager (berkeley-unix)

(Note: This is emacs 18.56 off of prep.  The version.el in the tar
file on prep was not updated to 18.56 when I picked up the sources.)

Do this to see this bug report:

  Type C-x C-f, then a filename prefix you know doesn't have any
completions, and type '?'.  You should see " [No completions]" pop up
in the minibuffer for two seconds.  It doesn't.

  I've tried to trace why this isn't working, but I don't understand
all of the minibuffer contents saving and restoring in minibuf.c and
some of the other files.  It worked in the 18.54 emacs we used to be
running, but I can't diff the two minibuf.c's to find out what has
changed because lots of variables and function names have changed and
the diff would have too much in it to show anything useful.

  The call to "message" right before the attempt to complete in
minibuffer-completion-help is probably what's messing things up
somehow, since if you hit '\t' instead of '?', you get the " [No
match]" message, and in that case, there is no call to "message"
before the " [No match]" message is displayed.

  If anybody reading this in gnu.emacs.bug has seen this bug and/or
knows how to fix it, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me E-mail,
because I don't read gnu.emacs.bug.  Thanks.

Jonathan Kamens			              USnail:
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