From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 49776@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#49776: 28.0.50; Incorrect username completion results reported by `read-file-name-interal`
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:13:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1f9hh57.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80d828d7-7ba5-a9a6-ea65-f5081f9fc1d6@daniel-mendler.de> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Mon, 2 Aug 2021 13:57:43 +0200")
Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>> ustring here is "~man", and the boundary is 1, so completion--twq-all
>> returns "/foo/~man" (because it stripped off 1 character at the start).
>>
>> But it should have stripped off "~/foo/~", I think? Somehow?
>
> Yes. I think the problem here is the wrong completion boundary. The
> completion boundary should be placed such that the shadowed path is not
> part of the completion. In this case the completion boundary should be
> behind the second "~".
Yup. But my understanding of the completion code is extremely limited,
so hopefully somebody who understands it better can propose a fix...
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-04 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-29 22:17 bug#49776: 28.0.50; Incorrect username completion results reported by `read-file-name-interal` Daniel Mendler
2021-07-30 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 11:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 12:29 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-07-30 12:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 13:31 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-07-30 17:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-31 12:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-02 11:57 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-08-04 6:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-30 13:22 ` Daniel Mendler
2021-07-30 12:45 ` bug#49777: " Daniel Mendler
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