From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12838: pcomplete on a path with ~ in eshell fails with "Text is read-only" Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:26 -0500 Message-ID: <25sj8j4jap.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352427121 13427 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2012 02:12:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 02:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12838@debbugs.gnu.org To: Tuomas Kuismin Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 03:12:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4o-0001W1-TJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:12:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4f-0005LS-Dl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4c-0005LN-I3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4b-00068g-F4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4b-00068c-BJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4f-0007xH-N2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:12:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12838 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12838-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12838.135242709530542 (code B ref 12838); Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12838) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Nov 2012 02:11:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56749 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4E-0007wZ-Dc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:53708) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe4C-0007wS-K6 for 12838@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWe47-0007bl-1W; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:11:27 -0500 X-Spook: Osama BATF S Box USDOJ PET Skipjack radar fraud X-Ran: U5.8$1p9Up/>!vGHuhZ.|\mUc4Ja2XdW^^Av--J>)"$|'l7H X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Tuomas Kuismin's message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:44:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66658 Archived-At: Tuomas Kuismin wrote: > Reproducing: > + Start emacs with "emacs -Q" > + Start eshell with M-x eshell > + Ignore case in eshell completion with M-x set-variable -> eshell-cmpl-ignore-case -> t > + Exit eshell with the command "exit" > + Restart eshell with M-x eshell aka emacs -Q --eval '(setq eshell-cmpl-ignore-case t)' -f eshell > + Create a file in your home directory with the command "touch ~/foo" > + Try to complete said file (in eshell) by typing "cat ~/f" and pressing TAB > > Result: No completion is done, message "Text is read-only" appears. Thanks for the report, with similar symptoms to the closed http://debbugs.gnu.org/5067. This is a bug in pcomplete-insert-entry, which tries to delete "/home/user/f" from a buffer that contains only "~/f", and so ends up trying to delete the read-only prompt. There is a FIXME comment in the source about this... It works fine in 23.4, not in 24.1 and later.