From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
To: 24888@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24888: pcomplete/cd returns "../" before "./" and does not include empty completion in results of pcomplete-at-point
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 19:53:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c39f133e-e157-e36b-e93e-53e8b0ee5f81@live.com> (raw)
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pcomplete's ordering of completion makes it inconvenient to input directory names to 'cd' to when using company. Example scenario:
* Start a shell (M-x shell)
* Enable company-mode
* Start typing `cd /home/clement/`
This invokes (assuming a low enough completion delay) pcomplete-at-point (the call goes through company-capf, which relies on completion-at-point-functions, which contains comint-dynamic-completion, which includes pcomplete-at-point). The results of this pcomplete invocation include "../" and "./", followed by name-ordered file names. There are two problems:
* "../" comes first, which causes the default completion to be "/home/clement/../".
* pcomplete's list doesn't include "/home/clement/" itself.
Fixing the second problem would fix the first one; if pcomplete included "" in its results in addition to "./" and "../", and ranked it first, there would be no problem (company would display "/home/clement/" first, just like company-files does)
Cheers,
Clément.
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2016-11-05 23:53 Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-11-07 0:15 ` bug#24888: pcomplete/cd returns "../" before "./" and does not include empty completion in results of pcomplete-at-point Dmitry Gutov
2016-11-07 1:04 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-07 13:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
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