From: Thierry Volpiatto <tvolpiatt@neuf.fr>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hippie-expand show possible expansions for files
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:30:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878x59aoxf.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <226109E4-0752-41D9-9E02-87558D8FF0EE@Web.DE>
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 07.11.2007 um 16:27 schrieb Bourgneuf Francois:
>
>> I work under Windows and neither hippie-expand nor comint-dynamic-
>> complete could expand anything after c:\program Files
>
> I am not working under Losedows and I am not writing a path with ``\
> ´´ (except I want to "escape" SPC or such in the path name) – and the
> latter makes an important difference! When you start with ``c:/program
> ´´ comint-dynamic-complete will work and probably expand to ``C:/
> Program\ Files/´´ ...
>
> The reason is that backslash is used as a metacharacter that cannot
> stand for itself but gives other characters a particular meaning. So,
> when you write ``\p´´ it's not a sequence of ``\´´ and ``p´´ but a
> backslashed p´´, some new entity.
Yes, it seem to work also like that i can complete c:/Program files/
but after that to complete i have to write c:/Program files/\and then
like that i can complete with a buffer that show all.
So comint-dynamic-complete is much more fun with /home/user... :)
--
A + Thierry
pubkey: http://pgp.mit.edu/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 15:27 hippie-expand show possible expansions for files Bourgneuf Francois
2007-11-07 16:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-07 16:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-07 18:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3095.1194453900.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-07 21:19 ` Fabian Braennstroem
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2007-11-06 19:52 Fabian Braennstroem
2007-11-06 20:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.3056.1194379207.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-06 21:14 ` Fabian Braennstroem
2007-11-06 22:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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