Re: TAB autocompletion in dired producing error args-out-of-range

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have a file "a.txt". The directory is opened in dired. When I try to
> rename it I press R over it and for autocompletion I press "a" and
> <TAB>. I get the following error. Is this behaviour expected?

No, it's clearly not normal.

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range "a.txt" 3 2)
>   file-name-completion("a" "~/work/temp/" file-exists-p)

I suggest you M-x report-emacs-bug so we get a bug number to track it.


        Stefan