* partial completion mode question
@ 2008-04-22 19:15 Michal
2008-04-22 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Michal @ 2008-04-22 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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hallo Group Members
I have the following files:
prompt$ ls -1 /tmp/trace*
/tmp/trace2.txt
/tmp/trace.txt
prompt$
Now I do:
M-x partial-completion-mode
then:
C-x C-f /tmp/trace.<TAB>
emacs correctly resolves it to:
C-x C-f /tmp/trace.txt
^
but leaves |
cursor here-------+
instead of at the end of line.
Is it some defect of partial completion mode?
Best regards,
Michal
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2008-04-22 19:15 partial completion mode question Michal
@ 2008-04-22 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2008-04-22 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Michal <rabbit50@tenbit.pl>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:15:46 +0200
>
> I have the following files:
> prompt$ ls -1 /tmp/trace*
> /tmp/trace2.txt
> /tmp/trace.txt
> prompt$
>
>
>
> Now I do:
> M-x partial-completion-mode
> then:
> C-x C-f /tmp/trace.<TAB>
> emacs correctly resolves it to:
> C-x C-f /tmp/trace.txt
> ^
> but leaves |
> cursor here-------+
> instead of at the end of line.
>
> Is it some defect of partial completion mode?
No, it's a feature: partial completion mode leaves point at the
position where there's the first difference between several possible
completions. Unlike what you seem to think, when partial completion
mode is on, trace.<TAB> can complete to both trace.txt and trace2.txt.
This is what partial completion mode is all about: it completes each
part of the input (in this case, the part before and after the period)
independently.
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* Re: partial completion mode question
@ 2008-04-24 16:15 Michal
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From: Michal @ 2008-04-24 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> No, it's a feature: partial completion mode leaves point at the
> position where there's the first difference between several possible
> completions. Unlike what you seem to think, when partial completion
> mode is on, trace.<TAB> can complete to both trace.txt and trace2.txt.
> This is what partial completion mode is all about: it completes each
> part of the input (in this case, the part before and after the period)
> independently.
>
Eli, Thanks for explanation
best regards
Michal
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