From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xzqx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:25:53 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1181161553.769299.189980@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <1181148570.453597.84420@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181162435 28866 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 20:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:40:35 +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 22:40:34 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 1Hw2Iz-0006qz-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2Iz-0006wx-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.162.101.50 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1181161564 28727 127.0.0.1 (6 Jun 2007 20:26:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:26:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=141.162.101.50; posting-account=m6xVqA0AAACjJWR-mjtVexndfg_ZxrqI Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149136 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:44722 Archived-At: On Jun 6, 4:09 pm, p...@potis.org wrote: > On 16:49 Wed 06 Jun , xzqx wrote: > > > > > Has anyone noticed that emacs sometimes behaves differently regarding > > autocomplete? For instance, suppose I have a directory containing the > > following files: > > > blah > > blahblah > > blah-blah > > blah-1 > > > If I C-x C-f and navigate to this directory, then hit space ONCE, I > > see: > > > Find file: ~/etest/blah > > > If I hit space again, I see: > > > Find file: ~/etest/blah- > > > If I hit space again, I see that, plus the completions list: blah-1 > > and blah-blah. If I'm not thinking, sometimes I forget that files > > called 'blah' and 'blahblah' even could exist. > > 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...