From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: 15735@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15735: 24.3.50; `find-library' completion bug
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:32:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526E7567.9070901@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff2b195a-bc0f-4950-9a66-f6ef73e5703f@default>
Am 28.10.2013 15:00, schrieb Drew Adams:
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't find library ess-
>>> 5.3.10/")
>>
>> From this error message, it looks like it did not complete to
>> "ess-5.3.10" but to "ess-5.3.10/", from which I gather that this is
>> the directory you added (you added it inside a directory which is
>> itself in load-path).
>
> That's right. It is a subdirectory of a directory in `load-path'.
> It is not, itself, in `load-path'.
>
>> So that looks perfectly correct. Or am I misunderstanding
>> something?
>
> It doesn't seem right to me, but I'm probably naive. I wouldn't
> think that it should be a completion at all, since (a) it is not
> itself an Emacs-Lisp library in the load-path and (b) there are
> no such libraries within it. I would expect TAB to say that there
> are no completions.
>
> I would expect that even if this directory were itself a member
> of the load-path (which it is not).
>
> But if this is the intended design, no problem. It just didn't
> seem like TRT to me. IOW, I didn't expect it.
>
>
>
>
Maybe the difficulty raises from the fact of the prefic being part of the directory name, which seems causing conflict?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-28 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-27 17:36 bug#15735: 24.3.50; `find-library' completion bug Drew Adams
2013-10-28 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-28 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-28 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-10-28 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-28 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-28 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-29 1:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-29 1:28 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-05 23:29 ` bug#15735: locate-file-completion-table should not accept incomplete input Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-06 0:17 ` bug#15735: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-06 0:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-06 0:29 ` Drew Adams
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