From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 60264@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60264: 29.0.60; Strange file completion candidates for shadowed file paths
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:13:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6xm8udx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ili3xikc.fsf@daniel-mendler.de> (message from Daniel Mendler on Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:57:39 +0100)
> From: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:57:39 +0100
>
> 1. Start emacs -Q
> 2. C-x C-f
> 3. Delete the entire minibuffer input
> 4. Enter /etc//s
> 5. Press ?
>
> You will see candidates like etc//sbin/. The candidates can get even
> stranger. If you enter /etc//etc//etc/s then you will get candidates
> like etc//etc//etc//sbin/. I can reproduce this bug on 27 and 29. I
> haven't tried 28, but the issue should exist there too.
I don't think it's a bug (look at what the minibuffer shows in those
cases), perhaps just a minor aesthetic thing, but I'm adding Stefan in
case he has comments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-23 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-22 20:57 bug#60264: 29.0.60; Strange file completion candidates for shadowed file paths Daniel Mendler
2022-12-23 7:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-23 8:02 ` Daniel Mendler
2022-12-23 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-23 17:38 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-27 0:16 ` Gregory Heytings
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