-- pieter -----Original Message----- > 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