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