Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 22:54:12 -0700 (PDT)
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and subject line Re: Bug#399156
has caused the Debian Bug report #399156,
regarding emacs21: Choosing from *Completions* buffer fails if
insert-default-directory is nil
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a+1-1
Severity: normal
When the variable `insert-default-directory' is customized to nil,
completion breaks in the find-file and find-alternate-file commands.
More precisely, it still works when there is a single suitable
completion which is auto-inserted in the minibuffer; but when there
are multiple choices, the completion buffer with the choices is
displayed, but any attempt to actually select one choice, either
with the mouse or by hitting Enter, leads to an error message
"Text is read only". This seems to happen in the function
`choose-completion-string' at the point where it calls `delete-region'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-9custom2+fuse
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-6 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
emacs21 recommends no packages.
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I see this issue in 22.3, but not in the current 24.3, so it seems it was fixed
at some point inbetween.
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