bug#17165: 24.4.50; icomplete-exhibit: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> I have some code that does this:
>
> (when (and (featurep 'icomplete)
>            (natnump icicle-icomplete-mode-max-candidates))
>       (if (< nb-cands icicle-icomplete-mode-max-candidates)
>           (if (not icicle-last-icomplete-mode-value)
>               (icomplete-mode -1)
>             (icomplete-mode 1)
>             (icomplete-exhibit)) ; <==========
>           (icomplete-tidy)
>           (icomplete-mode -1)))
>
> Once in a while I have seen this wrong-type-argument error.  I suspect,
> but I do not know, that it comes from this code in `icomplete-exhibit':
>
> (if (and (or icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input
>              (> (icomplete--field-end) (icomplete--field-beg)))
>     ...

Do you have a recipe for this bug?

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