From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 14175@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14175: 24.3.50; Bad completion behavior with read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 03:03:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf4tug3z.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gkab09w.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:26:03 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> (setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t
> completion-auto-help t)
>
> In my "~/", I have, among other files,
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 micha micha 9 Feb 3 20:00 download -> Downloads
> drwxr-xr-x 11 micha micha 4,0K Apr 9 15:40 Downloads
>
> I hit C-x d ~/Down TAB
>
> Emacs completes the minibuffer to
>
> ~/Download
>
> Since this is no valid completion, it should pop up *Completions*, but
> it doesn't (first issue). I hit TAB a second time. I get this in *Completions*:
>
> Click <mouse-2> on a completion to select it.
> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
>
> Possible completions are:
> Download/
> Downloads/
>
> It doesn't offer "download". If I click on "Download/", I get the
> message
>
> `mouse-choose-completion' is an obsolete command (as of 23.2); use
> `choose-completion' instead.
>
> (second issue)
>
> Then it completes the minibuffer content to "~/Download/". But this
> doesn't exist (third and major issue). I get an error when hitting RET
> (of course).
I can't reproduce either of these issues in Emacs 28. Are you still
seeing this in recent Emacs versions?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-23 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-10 20:26 bug#14175: 24.3.50; Bad completion behavior with read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t Michael Heerdegen
2013-04-10 23:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-04-12 14:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-04-12 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-23 1:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-24 15:20 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-24 15:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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