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 16:09:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20070606200954.GA13121@mail.potis.org> 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 1181160688 22722 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 20:11:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:11:28 +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 22:11:23 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 1Hw1qk-0000jL-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:11:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1qj-0006JP-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1qV-0006I7-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1qT-0006G8-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1qT-0006Fu-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from sitemail2.everyone.net ([216.200.145.36] helo=omta09.mta.everyone.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw1qT-0003ti-D3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pop16.mta.everyone.net (bigiplb-dsnat [172.16.0.19]) by omta09.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B8340BDB for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:11:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Eon-Dm: pop16 Original-Received: by pop16.mta.everyone.net (EON-AUTHRELAY2 - 48f102f2) id pop16.465dfe42.14543c for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:11:03 -0700 X-Eon-Sig: AQLTeK1GZxTXCoo1hQIAAAAB,d8c69623e10b8c3f54e82df26c2cf9ca Original-Received: by potis.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 poti@potis.org; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:09:55 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1181148570.453597.84420@o5g2000hsb.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:44721 Archived-At: 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.