From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 7924@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7924: 23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:29:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4hnp9ui.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5bz72vm.fsf@sc3d.org> (Reuben Thomas's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:48:29 +0000")
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
> Both in the manual and in the docstring for `cd', one might reasonably
> infer (as I did!) that CDPATH will be searched when completing relative
> directory names, but this is not the case.
>
> Is there in fact any way to get this to work? It’s something that one
> can do nicely in bash in a terminal, for example, but not in shell-mode.
I think this needs new code in `read-file-name-internal' (the completion
function for read-file-name).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-26 21:48 bug#7924: 23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading Reuben Thomas
2011-01-29 23:29 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-01-30 13:34 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-01-31 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-01 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-03 11:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-02-18 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-22 11:25 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
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