From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7924: 23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:48:29 +0000 Message-ID: <87r5bz72vm.fsf@sc3d.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296078938 9916 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 21:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:55:38 +0000 (UTC) To: 7924@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 22:55:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiDKu-00056Q-0x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiDKt-0006qq-6T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:48:31 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:41:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43662 Archived-At: 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=E2=80=99s something that o= ne can do nicely in bash in a terminal, for example, but not in shell-mode. In any case, it would be nice to lower users=E2=80=99 expectations by point= ing out in the docstring for cd, and in the manual, that it doesn=E2=80=99t app= ly to interactive completion. In GNU Emacs 23.2.91.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0) of 2011-01-13 on canta Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000 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: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t recentf-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t icomplete-mode: t global-whitespace-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t yas/global-mode: t yas/minor-mode: t mouse-wheel-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 column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-x 1 C-n C-n C-n C-n=20 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n=20 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p=20 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p=20 C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-s C D=20 P A T H C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-h v c d - p a t h=20 C-x b M-x c d =20 =20 =20 g p r e =20 C-g C-x b * s h g r e p SPC c d - p=20 a t h S-SPC ~ ? . / . e m a=20 c s . d / * M-p . e l =20 M-p =20 =20 C D P A T H =20 M-p =20 =20 d e s e m=20 a c s . d / e e =20 s M-p =20 =20 =20 c d - p a t h c d SPC g r e p - c =20 d d e c o m p r e s s =20 M-> C-x b C-s r e=20 a d - C-a M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: No completions of ~/.des Type space to flush; repeat completion command to scroll No completions of ~/.emacs.dee Completing file name... 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