find-file tab completion misses a file

find-file tab completion misses a file

[josh buhl]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
  of 2004-04-07 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure '--build=i386-linux' '--host=i386-linux' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes' 
'--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 
'build_alias=i386-linux' 'host_alias=i386-linux''
Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: nil
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
   locale-coding-system: utf-8
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

In an arbitrary directory, for example in /tmp , I have a file named 
iptraffic.log and a directory called iptrafvol. In emacs I type C-x C-f 
to try to load iptraffic.log and type "/tmp/ip<tab>" where <tab> means 
the tab key. Then tab completion completes to the "/tmp/iptrafvol/" 
directory and ignores the iptraffic.log file.


Recent input:
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <next> <up>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<mouse-movement> <mouse-movement> <mouse-movement>
<drag-mouse-1> C-z C-x C-f / t m p <tab> <return> g
C-x C-f i p <tab> <tab> <tab> C-g d x y e s <return>
C-x C-f g c <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> i p
t <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> C-g <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu>
<report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Mark set [3 times]
Wrote /home/josh/tmp/gmx_support_040602.txt
Directory has changed on disk; type g to update Dired
Reading directory /tmp/...done
Making completion list...
Quit
1 of 1 deletions
1 deletion done
Loading emacsbug...done
byte-code: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
Quit

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9:00, I drop fart.' It just happen.

	--Soki Antsuzaki

Re: find-file tab completion misses a file

[Glenn Morris]

josh buhl wrote:

> In an arbitrary directory, for example in /tmp , I have a file named
> iptraffic.log and a directory called iptrafvol. In emacs I type C-x
> C-f to try to load iptraffic.log and type "/tmp/ip<tab>" where <tab>
> means the tab key. Then tab completion completes to the
> "/tmp/iptrafvol/" directory and ignores the iptraffic.log file.

This is because completion-ignored-extensions (see "Completion
Options" section of the Emacs manual) contains ".log". This has been
removed in the CVS. You can use 

(setq completion-ignored-extensions
      (delete ".log" completion-ignored-extensions))

in your .emacs for the same effect.