From: "Mike Hostetler" <mike@hostetlerhome.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: File Completion strangeness
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:15:01 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54708.72.37.2.112.1253740501.squirrel@email.powweb.com> (raw)
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I have seen this problem on GNU Emacs 23, both on MacOS via Emacs.app and
on Cygwin GNU Emacs. At first I thought it was weirdness on the Mac,
but now that I've seen it on Cygwin, it must be something that changed in
23.
This takes a while to explain, but let's say I have the
following directory structure:
/foo/
bar/
barfoo/
In Emacs I'm in directory /foo/bar and I
want to go into /foo/barfoo. So I do C-x C-f and Emacs says
/foo/bar. I delete the word bar and hit TAB and see "bar"
and "barfoo" listed. I type "barf", hit TAB and
it gives me "barfoo" but it takes off the "/foo" on
the name. So when I hit enter, it says that the directory doesn't
exist! Now when I do C-x C-f Emacs says I'm in
"/foo/bar/barfoo".
In previous versions of Emacs I
would be in /foo/barfoo. So what changed? Or what am I doing
wrong?
Mike Hostetler
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