Re: Errors on missing completion?

[Juri Linkov]

>> There is a special variable `debug-ignored-errors' with the list
>> of error messages to ignore, and as I see it already contains
>> "^No dynamic expansion for .* found$".  So when debug-on-error
>> is non-nil, `dabbrev-expand' is not disturbing due to this variable.
>> Do you have a test case where `debug-ignored-errors' gets ignored?
>
> Thanks, I forgot about that variable.
>
> No, I can't understand what happened before right now. I get no error
> now. I will try to actually read the error message next time ;-)

Ah, I now see what is wrong.  When `dabbrev-check-other-buffers' is nil,
the error message is "No dynamic expansion for \"%s\" found in this-buffer"
that is not matched by `debug-ignored-errors'.  The following patch
fixes this.  All the rest messages are already covered by this list.

Index: lisp/dabbrev.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/dabbrev.el,v
retrieving revision 1.88
diff -c -r1.88 dabbrev.el
*** lisp/dabbrev.el     8 Jan 2008 20:44:44 -0000       1.88
--- lisp/dabbrev.el     21 Mar 2008 00:03:35 -0000
***************
*** 1011,1017 ****
                (cons found-string dabbrev--last-table))
          result)))))
  
! (dolist (mess '("^No dynamic expansion for .* found$"
                "^No further dynamic expansion for .* found$"
                "^No possible abbreviation preceding point$"))
    (add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors mess))
--- 1011,1017 ----
                (cons found-string dabbrev--last-table))
          result)))))
  
! (dolist (mess '("^No dynamic expansion for .* found"
                "^No further dynamic expansion for .* found$"
                "^No possible abbreviation preceding point$"))
    (add-to-list 'debug-ignored-errors mess))

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/