Re: partial-completion-mode in gdba

[A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>]

> A Soare writes:
>  > > > 1. Emacs -Q
>  > > >
>  > > > 2. partial-completion-mode
>  > > >
>  > > > => partial-completion-mode on
>  > > >
>  > > > 3. gdba
>  > > >
>  > > > =>Run gdba (like this): gdb -annotate=3 /g/e/ <TAB>
>  > > >
>  > > > comint-dynamic-complete-as-filename: Opening directory: no such file or directory, /g/e/ [2 times]
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > This is a bug.
> 
> Why do you think it's a bug?  Did it ever work for you?  I doubt it.  Partial
> completion mode seems to replace minibuffer-complete-* with PC-complete-* in
> the minibuffer keymaps but M-x gdba (and M-x gdb) uses read-from-minibuffer
> with the keymap gud-minibuffer-local-map.  TAB is bound to
> comint-dynamic-complete-filename on this keymap which is why it doesn't work as
> you expect.

It reads a file name in fact, and because partial completion is on, when I press TAB after /g/e I expect to see /gnu/emacs, because in the root of my filesystem the only one directory that starts with 'g' is gnu, and the only dir. from /gnu is emacs et cetera.

I do not think that such a feature ever existed, so I think this is not a bug, just a missing feature.

Alin Soare.