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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Problems with refiling
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:05:06 +0100
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On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Peter Westlake wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:29 +0100, "Carsten Dominik"
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I am still having problems reproducing.
> ...
>> What am I missing?
>
> The answer appears to be: partial-completion-mode.
>
> I repeated the steps exactly, then tried again on a machine with the
> same Emacs and Org but no customisation apart from the org-refile
> variables. It worked there, suggesting that the problem must be in my
> .emacs, and partial-completion-mode was an obvious suspect. It was
> switched on (t), and switching it off cured the problem!

OK, I am now forcing it off while refile targets are completed.

There are definitely too many plug-ins which mess around
with completion, and too many people who forget what they
have turned on some day in the past :-)

Thanks for getting to the bottom of it.

- Carsten