From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>
Cc: 3250@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3250: 23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-directory is nil
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 18:37:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5yxdhuz.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A05BF3C.3060606@simplistix.co.uk> (Chris Withers's message of "Sat, 09 May 2009 18:37:00 +0100")
> (setq insert-default-directory nil)
> tab completion when using tramp to access a remote file becomes flakey.
> It seems that the notion of the current working directory becomes lost,
> so tab completion ends up with doubled up directories, eg:
> /home/chris/afolder/afolder
> ...where afolder doesn't exist, resulting in errors such as the following:
> File error: tramp-handle-file-name-all-completions: Couldn't `cd
> /home/chris/afolder/afolder/'
> This doesn't happen right away, but I usually end up bumping into it when
> navigating
> around a folder structure by inserting .. a number of times in the
> minibuffer window.
I don't know if Michael can fix it based on the above report, but
I expect that a reproducible test case starting from "emacs -Q"
would help.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-09 22:37 UTC|newest]
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2009-05-09 17:37 ` bug#3250: 23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-directory is nil Chris Withers
2009-05-09 22:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-05-09 22:51 ` Chris Withers
2009-05-11 15:40 ` bug#3250: marked as done (23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-directory is nil) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-05-10 21:50 bug#3250: Re: bug#3250: 23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-directory is nil Chong Yidong
2009-05-10 21:53 ` Chris Withers
2009-05-10 22:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-10 22:05 ` Chris Withers
2009-05-10 22:24 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-10 22:42 ` Chris Withers
2009-05-11 3:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-11 8:13 ` Chris Withers
2009-05-11 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
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