From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 32215@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#32215: 27.0.50; Minibuffer completion fails with /~<partial-name>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0vij66g.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336we0xdf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:56:12 +0300")
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:56:12 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 32215@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:28:15 +0200
>>
>> Nothing is removed. To be explicit, when I start with -Q and type 'C-x
>> d', the minibuffer displays this:
>>
>> Dired (directory): ~/
>>
>> with point after '/'. When I now type '/', the face of '~/' changes to
>> shadow, and when I then type '~', the face of the second '/' also
>> changes to shadow. When I now type TAB, the minibuffer looks like this:
>>
>> Dired (directory): ~//~
>>
>> with '~//' in shadow face, and a *Completions* buffer pops up and shows
>> the directory names of all members of (system-users). When I now type
>> 's TAB', the face of the second '/' changes from shadow to default
>> (black), '[No match]' appears after the cursor and the *Completions*
>> buffer disappears. I.e., the minibuffer looks like this on hitting TAB:
>>
>> Dired (directory): ~//~s█[No match]
>>
>> with '~/' in shadow face and '/~s' in default face, and after a couple
>> of seconds, '[No match]' disappears, leaving the rest.
>
> Ah, I think I understand why I couldn't reproduce the problem: it
> seems to only happen if default-directory is "~/" before starting the
> recipe. If it is something else, the problem doesn't happen. Can you
> confirm?
I'm afraid not:
0. emacs -Q
1. M-x cd RET /tmp/ RET
2. C-x d /~s TAB
results in this minibuffer display:
Dired (directory): /tmp//~s█[No match]
with '/tmp/' in shadow face and '/~s' in default face. Same thing with
any other value of default-directory I've tried.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-20 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 17:55 bug#32215: 27.0.50; Minibuffer completion fails with /~<partial-name> Stephen Berman
2018-07-19 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-19 20:11 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-20 1:02 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-20 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 8:31 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-20 13:58 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-20 14:28 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-20 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 15:08 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2018-07-20 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 17:30 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-20 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-20 21:46 ` Stephen Berman
2018-07-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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