Re: autocomplete idiosyncracies

[poti@potis.org]

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.