From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: 15385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15385: [Eshell] Directory completion overwrites preceding characters
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 04:40:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfv9qbq0.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvt6p42n.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:11:44 +0200")
Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
> Starting from `emacs -Q', if I do
>
> (setq eshell-cmpl-ignore-case t)
>
> and then start up a shell, TAB completion behaves incorrectly under some
> conditions.
>
> Specifically, I type a command such as:
>
> $ cp ~/Dropbox/Work/Reading/Wilbur_Martinez2002.pdf ~/Dro
>
> At this point, I hit TAB to complete `~/Dro' and get:
>
> $ cp ~/Dropbox/Work/Reading/Wilbur_Martine/home/joost/Dropbox/
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
I tried to reproduce this (now with that exact path, but something
similar) in Emacs 29, and I was unable to -- it completed to the
expected path.
Are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs versions?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2013-09-21 4:06 ` bug#15385: [Eshell] Directory completion overwrites preceding characters Aidan Gauland
2013-09-15 14:11 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-21 11:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-12-04 3:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-12-04 21:37 ` Joost Kremers
2021-12-04 22:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-09-21 14:42 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2634.1379763074.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-22 18:55 ` Aidan Gauland
[not found] ` <mailman.2651.1379774595.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-22 19:00 ` Aidan Gauland
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