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 13:12:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3u-G=Q1Fc0qa9V2DJiX4uU62yTC0YDkHR-JJ9p4CPBV2tF5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3u-G=90_iREiSMaa70OyPLggGSTmEXgehcd7YKp3sVieu6PQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Oh, and I've confirmed that the workaround of `C-u C-Tab` works great for
cycling through files when `C-Tab` would otherwise get stuck. So, I'm good
until the next official release.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:02 PM Aaron Cohen <aaron@brightbytes.net> wrote:
> 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
2021-08-02 20:12 ` Aaron Cohen [this message]
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