From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1757: 23.0.60; completion DWIM too clever Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 1757@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230825825 14343 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2009 16:03:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:03:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 17:04:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIQ2T-000692-8Y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:04:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIQ1E-0006Li-Fl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIQ19-0006IV-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIQ17-0006FR-Jw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42422 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIQ17-0006F7-BK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:42176) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LIQ16-0005K3-I2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n01G3MNt021618; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:03:22 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n01Ft3l6019279; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 07:55:03 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard M Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:55:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1757 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.123082499818037 (code B ref -1); Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 1 Jan 2009 15:49:58 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n01FntJR018031 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 07:49:56 -0800 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LIPn1-0001tj-1R; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:48:51 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:03:26 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23656 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23587 Archived-At: I typed C-x b *d TAB and it offered me as completions `diary' and `old', neither of which starts with a `*'. I typed C-x b *di TAB and it completed to `diary', which is not even a completion of what I typed. It is extremely annoying to discard the user's input characters. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.15 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-12-22 on lemote-yeeloong configured using `configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Diff Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t gpm-mouse-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent input: ESC : b u f f e r - u n d o - l i s t RET C-x b RET TAB TAB ESC < C-s p m a i l - v i e w - b u f f e r C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-a C-p C-p C-p C-o TAB ( s e t q SPC b u f f e r - u n d o - l i s t SPC t ) C-x C-s C-x b RET ESC p u C-x C-s C-x b RET ESC C-x C-x b RET C-x k RET ESC x p m a i l RET y ESC : b u f f e r - s w a p p e d - w i t h RET C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d p C-d C-d C-d x C-x C-s ESC : b u f f e r ESC p RET C-x d e m a c s - c v s / l i s p / m a i l / p m a i l * . e l * RET C-u C-n C-n C-n C-@ C-u C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n = C-g C-x C-x = RET ESC C-v C-x 1 C-u C-n C-u C-n C-n C-p C-n C-@ C-p = RET ESC C-v ESC C-v ESC C-v ESC C-v ESC C-v ESC C-v C-x 1 C-x b * d i TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL * d i TAB DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL * C-g C-x C-b C-x o C-v C-n C-n C-n f C-x 1 ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a v s DEL DEL c s RET Recent messages: 0 new messages read # Expunging deleted messages...done Saving file /home/rms/PMAIL... Wrote /home/rms/PMAIL # Mark set Source file `/home/rms/emacs-cvs/lisp/diff.el' newer than byte-compiled file Quit Mark activated Quit