From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Ole Laursen <olau@iola.dk>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
19031@debbugs.gnu.org, Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#19031: 24.4; find-file in icomplete-mode shows completions with no input
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:51:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh2o7krj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANb2OvKD5pkrGobqNk9E6gv+ZWG3dFvb9A5oUNgbiz=syQkRLQ@mail.gmail.com> (Ole Laursen's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:43:38 +0100")
> I originally reported this because I found it jarring to get a bunch
> of completions without having entered anything. In my home dir it
> basically shows me garbage (dot files that I'm never interested in).
>
> Would it not be possible to make a difference between the case where
> find-file provides some default text (current dir) and where I have
> entered some input? The variable literally says -on-no-input.
I tried to handle this case with the following patch, but it doesn't work
because read-file-name-default resets `minibuffer-default' to nil,
so icomplete doesn't know what was initial input in the minibuffer.
diff --git a/lisp/icomplete.el b/lisp/icomplete.el
index 676917b9da..47bd8f90a4 100644
--- a/lisp/icomplete.el
+++ b/lisp/icomplete.el
@@ -579,7 +579,10 @@ icomplete-exhibit
(goto-char (point-max))
; Insert the match-status information:
(when (and (or icomplete-show-matches-on-no-input
- (> (icomplete--field-end) (icomplete--field-beg)))
+ (if (stringp minibuffer-default)
+ (/= (icomplete--field-end) (+ (icomplete--field-beg)
+ (length minibuffer-default)))
+ (> (icomplete--field-end) (icomplete--field-beg))))
(or
;; Don't bother with delay after certain number of chars:
(> (- (point) (icomplete--field-beg))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 11:25 bug#19031: 24.4; find-file in icomplete-mode shows completions with no input Ole Laursen
2020-12-04 10:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-04 11:37 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-12-06 12:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 11:43 ` Ole Laursen
2020-12-08 8:51 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2020-12-08 10:43 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-12-08 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-08 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-08 16:16 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-12-08 17:09 ` Ole Laursen
2020-12-08 19:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-08 21:33 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-12-09 19:08 ` Juri Linkov
2020-12-10 8:08 ` Andrii Kolomoiets
2020-12-14 8:44 ` Juri Linkov
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