From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: poti@potis.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:07:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20070606210731.GB13121@mail.potis.org> References: <1181148570.453597.84420@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1181161553.769299.189980@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181164146 2460 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 21:09:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:09:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 23:09:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hw2ka-0004U7-0f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:09:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2kZ-0001Fv-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2kL-0001Fl-6A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2kJ-0001FR-9X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2kJ-0001FO-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net ([216.200.145.36] helo=omta16.mta.everyone.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw2kI-0003IP-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from pop16.mta.everyone.net (bigiplb-dsnat [172.16.0.19]) by omta16.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4660142B37 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:08:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Eon-Dm: pop16 Original-Received: by pop16.mta.everyone.net (EON-AUTHRELAY2 - 48f102f2) id pop16.465dfe42.158204 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:08:41 -0700 X-Eon-Sig: AQLTeK1GZyJZRz/TTgIAAAAB,2c943a9d41ccdec5e2ecb16999028a55 Original-Received: by potis.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 poti@potis.org; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1181161553.769299.189980@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44723 Archived-At: > > > > What version of emacs are you using (M-x emacs-version)? > > On GNU Emacs 21.4.2 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll > > bars) of 2007-05-16, I cannot reproduce the problem. > > However, on all recent Windows emacs versions, I have a similar > > problem of garbled completions, especially using completion multiple > > times on paths with spaces. > > Good question. I am using 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit). > Perhaps it is just a bug... I did not test your question closely enough. It turns out that my GNU/Linux Emacs versions behave the same way as yours. I also have GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, Motif Version 2.2.3) of 2006-09-09.