bug#6421: 23.2; filename completion error on unused Windows drive letter

bug#6421: 23.2; filename completion error on unused Windows drive letter

[Richard Copley]

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Get prompted for a filename, enter "G:/" (or "G:\") (where 'G' is not a
mapped drive letter) and invoke `minibuffer-complete'. Should say "[No
match]" but says "Args out of range: "g:", 0, 3" instead.

In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f g : / <tab> C-g M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s
- b u g <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
completion--some: Args out of range: "g:", 0, 3
Quit

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec
password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils wid-edit mailheader canlock sha1
hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars
tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)
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bug#6421: 23.2; filename completion error on unused Windows drive letter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Copley <Richard.Copley@uhb.nhs.uk>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:58:59 +0100
> Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB
> acceptlanguage: en-US, en-GB
> Cc: 
> 
> Get prompted for a filename, enter "G:/" (or "G:\") (where 'G' is not a
> mapped drive letter) and invoke `minibuffer-complete'. Should say "[No
> match]" but says "Args out of range: "g:", 0, 3" instead.

> In GNU  Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'

Thanks, this is already fixed in the development sources.