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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 56532@debbugs.gnu.org, tobias.bora@gmail.com
Subject: bug#56532: 27.2; Ido C-f in read-file-name inserts twice the initial name
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 21:23:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1wvsgdu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zghb5zgi.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu,  14 Jul 2022 20:19:41 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Tobias Bora <tobias.bora@gmail.com>,  56532@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:19:41 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I can easily reproduce it in emacs -Q yes by simply evaluating the 
> >> following config:
> >> 
> >> (setq ido-everywhere t)
> >> (ido-mode)
> >> ;; Stop changing directory when openning a file that does not exist!
> >> (setq ido-auto-merge-work-directories-length -1)
> >> 
> >> (read-file-name  "Picture name:" "/tmp/" nil nil "defaultname.png")
> 
> Thanks; with that I can reproduce the problem.
> 
> > It looks like you aren't supposed to do that under Ido.  See
> > ido-magic-forward-char.
> 
> It may not be supposed to work, but it'd be logical if it did, I think?
> But I'm not that familiar with how ido does fallbacks (it seems to
> involve some strange, brittle magic), so I don't know whether it's
> possible or not.

I think it relies on how the candidates are displayed at that point,
which is quite different from what read-file-name does.  Yes, that's
brittle.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-14 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-13  9:27 bug#56532: 27.2; Ido C-f in read-file-name inserts twice the initial name Tobias Bora
2022-07-13 11:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-13 14:16   ` Tobias Bora
2022-07-13 15:00     ` bug#56531: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-13 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 10:02   ` Tobias Bora
2022-07-14 10:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 18:19       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-14 18:23         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-14 20:54           ` Tobias Bora

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