* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
@ 2011-03-15 10:26 Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 8256
I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
(defcustom my-dir nil
"doc"
:type 'directory)
Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-03-02
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 10:26 bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 11:22 ` Lennart Borgman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2011-03-15 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0100
> Cc:
>
> I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
>
> (defcustom my-dir nil
> "doc"
> :type 'directory)
>
> Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
Does ESC-TAB complete in that case?
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2011-03-15 11:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0100
>> Cc:
>>
>> I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
>>
>> (defcustom my-dir nil
>> "doc"
>> :type 'directory)
>>
>> Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
>
> Does ESC-TAB complete in that case?
What do you mean? I just said it didn't?
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 11:22 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2011-03-15 11:56 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:22:13 +0100
> Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0100
> >> Cc:
> >>
> >> I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
> >>
> >> (defcustom my-dir nil
> >> "doc"
> >> :type 'directory)
> >>
> >> Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
> >
> > Does ESC-TAB complete in that case?
>
> What do you mean? I just said it didn't?
No, you said you called widget-complete, but did not say what happens
if you type ESC-TAB.
The thing is, it works for me (on Windows), at least in Emacs 23.3.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2011-03-15 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:22:13 +0100
>> Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0100
>> >> Cc:
>> >>
>> >> I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
>> >>
>> >> (defcustom my-dir nil
>> >> "doc"
>> >> :type 'directory)
>> >>
>> >> Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
>> >
>> > Does ESC-TAB complete in that case?
>>
>> What do you mean? I just said it didn't?
>
> No, you said you called widget-complete, but did not say what happens
> if you type ESC-TAB.
Yes, but ESC-TAB runs widget-complete (if you have not changed anything).
> The thing is, it works for me (on Windows), at least in Emacs 23.3.
Sorry, forgot to say I am using the trunk sources.
But I just downloaded the official 23.3 binaries and tested. It does
not work for me. When I hit ESC-TAB I just get a message:
complete-symbol: No completions available; use M-x visit-tags-table
or M-x semantic-mode
I can see "complete-symbol" only in *Messages*, not in the echo area.
(How does that work?)
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2011-03-15 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:32:38 +0100
> Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> But I just downloaded the official 23.3 binaries and tested. It does
> not work for me. When I hit ESC-TAB I just get a message:
>
> complete-symbol: No completions available; use M-x visit-tags-table
> or M-x semantic-mode
>
> I can see "complete-symbol" only in *Messages*, not in the echo area.
> (How does that work?)
We are probably doing different things, because you didn't provide the
exact recipe for reproducing the problem. Could you please give such
a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
` (3 more replies)
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> We are probably doing different things, because you didn't provide the
> exact recipe for reproducing the problem. Could you please give such
> a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?
Is that really possible for such a simple thing?;-)
Ok, here it is:
emacs -Q
Paste to *scratch* this code:
(defcustom my-dir nil
"doc"
:type 'directory)
Eval it.
M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil" that is there.
Now in the empty directory value field press ESC-TAB (or do M-x
widget-complete).
This fails for me with the message I gave before:
> complete-symbol: No completions available; use M-x visit-tags-table
> or M-x semantic-mode
Write for example "c:/" in the field and try again. It fails the same way.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 14:50 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
` (2 subsequent siblings)
3 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2011-03-15 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:08:33 +0100
> Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > We are probably doing different things, because you didn't provide the
> > exact recipe for reproducing the problem. Could you please give such
> > a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?
>
> Is that really possible for such a simple thing?;-)
Yes, it is. I was trying to reproduce this with a real defcustom
(archive-tmpdir, if you want to know), not with a fictitious
defcustom.
> emacs -Q
> Paste to *scratch* this code:
>
> (defcustom my-dir nil
> "doc"
> :type 'directory)
>
> Eval it.
> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
>
> Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil" that is there.
> Now in the empty directory value field press ESC-TAB (or do M-x
> widget-complete).
>
> This fails for me with the message I gave before:
>
> > complete-symbol: No completions available; use M-x visit-tags-table
> > or M-x semantic-mode
>
> Write for example "c:/" in the field and try again. It fails the same way.
I see the same on GNU/Linux (except that "C:/" should be replaced with
a "/", of course). So this is not w32-specific.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2011-03-15 14:50 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-15 15:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 16:01 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
3 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2011-03-15 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 'Lennart Borgman', 'Eli Zaretskii'; +Cc: 8256
> (defcustom my-dir nil "doc" :type 'directory)
>
> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
You get a type mismatch, of course, since nil is not a directory.
> Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil"
> that is there. Now in the empty directory value field
> press ESC-TAB. This fails
Try again, with a valid directory as the default value - e.g. "c:/foo/"
Keep in mind too that the completion uses `default-directory'. Dunno whether
that's always appropriate, but that's what it uses.
But I agree that regardless of the initial type mismatch, you should be able to
type a legitimate directory prefix and get completion.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
2011-03-15 14:50 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
@ 2011-03-15 15:27 ` Lennart Borgman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> (defcustom my-dir nil "doc" :type 'directory)
>>
>> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
>
> You get a type mismatch, of course, since nil is not a directory.
>
>> Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil"
>> that is there. Now in the empty directory value field
>> press ESC-TAB. This fails
>
> Try again, with a valid directory as the default value - e.g. "c:/foo/"
Ah, you are right. It kind of works with a valid default. (And this
does not have to be an existing directory.)
That was quite unexpected. And it is of course very inconvenient that
you can not customize a variable the normal way just because the
default value happens to be bad.
I think similar troubles in other places in custom too, but I can't
remember where now.
> Keep in mind too that the completion uses `default-directory'. Dunno whether
> that's always appropriate, but that's what it uses.
Thanks. I see a little bit different behaviour, but, yes, there is
another bug. This is what I see:
I looked at two rather similar cases that does not behave the same:
1) Default is a non-existing directory. If I try to complete this I
get completion candidates. It looks like it complets against
default-directory.
2) Default is "", but I enter the same directory into the directory
field in custom. Now I get no completion candidates.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 14:50 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
@ 2011-03-15 16:01 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-15 16:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
3 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2011-03-15 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 14:08, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We are probably doing different things, because you didn't provide the
>> exact recipe for reproducing the problem. Could you please give such
>> a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?
>
> Is that really possible for such a simple thing?;-)
It's really so difficult to understand that giving an "emacs -Q"
recipe should be the *standard*, *default* way to make a bug report
and by not making so you waste other people's time?
Juanma
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 16:01 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Juanma Barranquero
@ 2011-03-15 16:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 17:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Juanma Barranquero; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 14:08, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> We are probably doing different things, because you didn't provide the
>>> exact recipe for reproducing the problem. Could you please give such
>>> a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?
>>
>> Is that really possible for such a simple thing?;-)
>
> It's really so difficult to understand that giving an "emacs -Q"
> recipe should be the *standard*, *default* way to make a bug report
> and by not making so you waste other people's time?
That was not the problem here. The problem was that perhaps was not
clear enough that I did give it.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 16:16 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 17:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-22 20:25 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2011-03-15 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 17:16, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> That was not the problem here. The problem was that perhaps was not
> clear enough that I did give it.
Not giving an "emacs -Q" recipe in a bug report is always* a problem.
* [unless the nature of the bug precludes doing so, which is infrequent]
Juanma
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
2011-03-15 16:01 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32 Juanma Barranquero
@ 2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-15 17:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 18:04 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
3 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2011-03-15 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Lennart Borgman; +Cc: 8256
> emacs -Q
> Paste to *scratch* this code:
> (defcustom my-dir nil
> "doc"
> :type 'directory)
> Eval it.
> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
valid. Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
gets into a weird state. Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
much better.
Stefan
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2011-03-15 17:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 18:04 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> emacs -Q
>> Paste to *scratch* this code:
>
>> (defcustom my-dir nil
>> "doc"
>> :type 'directory)
>
>> Eval it.
>> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
>
> Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
> valid. Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
> gets into a weird state. Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
> much better.
What should signal that it the defcustom is not valid? And when?
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-15 17:40 ` Lennart Borgman
@ 2011-03-15 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-15 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2011-03-15 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 'Stefan Monnier', 'Lennart Borgman'; +Cc: 8256
> Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
> valid. Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
> gets into a weird state. Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
> much better.
Customize does indicate the type mismatch, as usual via `(mismatch)'.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
2011-03-15 18:04 ` bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 Drew Adams
@ 2011-03-15 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2011-03-15 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 8256
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
>> valid. Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
>> gets into a weird state. Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
>> much better.
>
> Customize does indicate the type mismatch, as usual via `(mismatch)'.
Yes. It writes that. And then goes into a weird state.
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* bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
2011-03-15 17:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
@ 2012-02-22 20:25 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-02-22 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 8256
I have no idea what's necessary to close this.
AFAICS, the whole thing boils down to a fictitious example using an
incorrect default.
nil != :type 'directory, and custom indicates this with "mismatch".
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