Re: might a bug in ido-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: zwz <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:57:42 +0800
> 
> I found a problem that crashes emacs.
> The problem seems a little random, but I produced it twice by:
> 
> 1. start the emacs: emacs -q
> 2. eval the elisp code below in the scratch buffer:
> 
> (setq ido-save-directory-list-file "~/.emacs.d/.ido.last"
>       ido-create-new-buffer 'always
>       ido-enable-flex-matching t
>       ido-enable-tramp-completion t)
> (ido-mode t)
> 
> 3. C-x C-f, and input a file name like "main.c".
>    Wait a second, while the the ido-mode is looking for "main.c", hit
>    the keys C-j (if no problem, then a buffer "main.c" is created)
> 4. do 3 again, with the same file name in the same directory.
>    When you hit C-j during the ido-mode's searching, emacs crashes!
>    (maybe you have to try more times to get the problem)

FWIW, I cannot reproduce this on my machine.

Can you run Emacs under GDB and when it crashes, show the backtrace?