Re: Inner workings of `pcomplete'

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-: (boundp 'pcomplete-stub) RET ==> nil
> 3. M-x shell
> 4. M-: (boundp 'pcomplete-stub) RET ==> t
> 5. M-: (special-variable-p 'pcomplete-stub) RET ==> nil
> 6. Open the file `pcomplete.el' (for example, by looking up the variable
> `pcomplete-stub') and M-x eval-buffer.  Now (special-variable-p
> 'pcomplete-stub) evaluates to t.

> What is going on here?

Duh!  Thanks for catching this.  Please M-x report-emacs-bug!

> prompt and M-: (pcomplete-completions)).  However, it is also passed as
> a table argument to the function `complete-with-action', whose
> documentation says that this argument should not be a function.

The docstring is wrong, as the first line of the code indicates 

        Stefan