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: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:34:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87r5bz72vm.fsf@sc3d.org> <87k4hnp9ui.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296394808 23082 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2011 13:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7924@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 14:40:00 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 1PjXVX-0006Id-Cn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:39:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54273 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjXVW-0006HG-MQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56655 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjXVR-0006Gz-FM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjXVQ-0005tj-B0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjXVQ-0005tf-9E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:39:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjXIz-0004Cr-TA; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:27:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Reuben Thomas Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7924 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7924-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7924.129639397116105 (code B ref 7924); Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7924) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jan 2011 13:26:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjXIA-0004Bi-GA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exprod7og121.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.20]) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjXI9-0004BW-4k for 7924@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from source ([209.85.218.41]) (using TLSv1) by exprod7ob121.postini.com ([64.18.6.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKTUVo4ner3S3lAZ99chwzeWbz8FRDZ/+o@postini.com; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:34:32 PST Original-Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so1686066yia.28 for <7924@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:34:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.150.203.8 with SMTP id a8mr6772432ybg.136.1296394464991; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:34:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.151.102.11 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:34:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87k4hnp9ui.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:27:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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:43757 Archived-At: On 29 January 2011 23:29, Chong Yidong wrote: > Reuben Thomas 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=92s 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). Fair enough, but in that case is it worth adding "(this does not work with filename completion)" to the docstring and manual? --=20 http://rrt.sc3d.org