From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [michael.cadilhac@lrde.org: PC-do-completion with directories adding stars.] Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:05:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200603052105.k25L53514913@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <874q2d56uw.fsf@mahaena.lrde> <87d5h0pqfo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141593031 10091 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2006 21:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, michael.cadilhac@lrde.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 22:10:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG0Uj-0004rG-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:10:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG0Uq-0003uX-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:10:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FG0Ud-00030M-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FG0Ua-0002br-1j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FG0UZ-0002bG-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FG0WW-0005tU-NT; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k25L9vLr017297; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:09:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id k25L53514913; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 15:05:03 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca In-reply-to: <87d5h0pqfo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:53:47 -0500) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.1 (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]); Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:09:57 -0600 (CST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51247 Archived-At: I am not the OP, but here are the details. If you do `emacs -q -nbc' and then "C-x C-f" then put "~/a/b/c" in the minibuffer, while there is no directory ~/a, and then type you get the error message: minibuffer-complete: Opening directory: no such file or directory, /home/teirllm/a/b/ If now you do `M-x partial-completion-mode' and repeat the experiment, you get: read-file-name-internal: Opening directory: no such file or directory, /home/teirllm/a*/b*/ If you keep repeating the , the number of stars after a and b keeps growing. Sincerely, Luc.