Hi, I found that the completion code in the ILISP completer.el will error out some times. Based on looking at the elisp stack trace, it seems to be because completer.el is unable to read my / directory. My root directory looks like (I guess this is a Debian thing, because I really don't remember doing this, but it seems a good idea):
drwxr-x--x 20 root root 4096 May 4 2001 / This is real pain, because once I start ILISP up I can't use completion reliably anymore. For example, I can recreate the problem by trying to complete a filename in the installed ILSIP XEmacs package directory with both .el and .elc files present leading 'il' in name. Setting completer-complete-filenames to nil fixes the problem! It took some searching to figure this out. By default it's value is t. My questions are: - Is this happening to only me? - Is the default variable value a bad one for Debian systems? - Should completer.el be fixed downstream to tolerate unreadable dirs? Cheers! Shyamal PS: I use a Woody system with ii xemacs21 21.4.6-6 Editor and kitchen sink
