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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Tim Van Holder" <tim.vanholder@gmail.com>
Cc: 279@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#279: 23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:15:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljyhjke6.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d69e7f6a0808280246v1962ea3al624e8bb6c2e3d26d@mail.gmail.com> (Tim Van Holder's message of "Thu\, 28 Aug 2008 11\:46\:20 +0200")

"Tim Van Holder" <tim.vanholder@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>> I've checked in a fix that should allow completions to work properly
>> with files containing `$', including proper highlighting of the
>> completions buffer.
>
> Unfortunately, after a fresh build this morning:
>   make maintainer-clean
>   /path/to/sources/configure --with-x
>   make
>   emacs -Q),
> I still get the behaviour I saw yesterday: once it reaches
> "/foo/$$blah." it claims there are no
> completions.

What is your precise recipe?  I can't reproduce the problem over here:

touch \$blah.quux
touch \$blah.xyzzy
emacs -Q
M-x shell RET
cd $$b TAB     -> completes to \$blah.
TAB            -> completions window opens up






  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-27  2:13 bug#279: 23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $ Chong Yidong
2008-08-27 12:47 ` Tim Van Holder
2008-08-27 17:19   ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-28  9:46     ` Tim Van Holder
2008-08-28 14:15       ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-08-29  9:51         ` Tim Van Holder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-19 11:23 Tim Van Holder

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