From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim.vanholder@gmail.com>
To: "Chong Yidong" <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 279@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#279: 23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d69e7f6a0808270547h487d0f28w72ebbdccf0208464@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ej4b8asv.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>> Files present on the system:
>> /foo/$blah.xyzzy
>> /foo/$blah.quux
>>
>> When pressing TAB twice to get completions for "/foo/$b", I noticed
>> that the fact that the $ gets escaped in the minibuffer seems to cause
>> the wrong letter to be highlighted in the *Completions* buffer
>> (i.e. the 'y' and 'u' are highlighted, respectively, instead of the
>> 'x' and 'q', respectively).
>
> I can't reproduce it in latest CVS. Maybe it's been fixed in the
> meantime. Do you still see this bug?
Now I get:
-> /foo
-> TAB
-> /foo/
-> TAB
-> /foo/$$blah.
-> TAB
-> /foo/$$blah. [no completions]
So I cannot reproduce the original problem with a CVS HEAD build, but
only in the sense that I don't get a *Completions* buffer at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-27 2:13 bug#279: 23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $ Chong Yidong
2008-08-27 12:47 ` Tim Van Holder [this message]
2008-08-27 17:19 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-28 9:46 ` Tim Van Holder
2008-08-28 14:15 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-29 9:51 ` Tim Van Holder
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2008-05-19 11:23 Tim Van Holder
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