From: Aaron Cohen <aaron@brightbytes.net>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 49761@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49761: file-cache-minibuffer-complete has become unusable for duplicate file names in MacOSX 27.x emacs
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:02:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3u-G=90_iREiSMaa70OyPLggGSTmEXgehcd7YKp3sVieu6PQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0l5j1u1.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
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Very much appreciated!!
And thank you for investigating and isolating the issue: I had
misidentified the actual problem and didn't provide a duplication recipe,
making your job much harder.
I promise to do better next time, and provide a test case. :-)
Thanks again!!
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 1:41 AM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
> tags 49761 fixed
> close 49761 28.0.50
> thanks
>
> > Well, it's now the default behavior. It wasn't previously. :-)
>
> And new is not always better ;-)
>
> So now the new behavior (that became old now) was fixed
> in the master branch for Emacs 28, and all test cases
> that you presented work completely as expected.
> Thanks for helping to understand where the problem was.
>
> BTW, after the fix, the following additional information
> is not necessary, but I discovered that in old versions
> you can use the prefix argument to force C-TAB cycling.
>
> An excerpt from etc/NEWS.20:
>
> ** file-cache-minibuffer-complete now accepts a prefix argument.
> With a prefix argument, it does not try to do completion of
> the file name within its directory; it only checks for other
> directories that contain the same file name.
> Thus, given the file name Makefile, and assuming that a file
> Makefile.in exists in the same directory, ordinary
> file-cache-minibuffer-complete will try to complete Makefile to
> Makefile.in and will therefore never look for other directories that
> have Makefile. A prefix argument tells it not to look for longer
> names such as Makefile.in, so that instead it will look for other
> directories--just as if the name were already complete in its present
> directory.
>
> and a comment from bindings.el:
>
> ;; The prefix argument works around a bug in the minibuffer completion.
> ;; The completion function doesn't distinguish between the states:
> ;;
> ;; "Multiple completions of name" (eg, Makefile, Makefile.in)
> ;; "Name available in multiple directories" (/tmp/Makefile,
> ~me/Makefile)
> ;;
> ;; The default is to do the former; a prefix arg forces the latter.
>
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 19:22 bug#49761: file-cache-minibuffer-complete has become unusable for duplicate file names in MacOSX 27.x emacs Aaron Cohen
2021-07-29 17:55 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-29 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 18:31 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-29 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 19:40 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-29 21:37 ` Aaron Cohen
2021-07-29 22:49 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-30 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 6:41 ` Aaron Cohen
2021-07-30 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 17:58 ` Juri Linkov
2021-07-30 18:20 ` Aaron Cohen
2021-07-30 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 19:12 ` Aaron Cohen
2021-08-01 8:40 ` Juri Linkov
2021-08-02 20:02 ` Aaron Cohen [this message]
2021-08-02 20:12 ` Aaron Cohen
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