File Completion strangeness

File Completion strangeness

[Mike Hostetler]

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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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