From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 8256@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:48:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PzVYA-00032t-UL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_FpeGqDEeN0UJx6abjt4FJeV4Azf_wP1QiXJC@mail.gmail.com> (message from Lennart Borgman on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:08:33 +0100)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2011-03-15 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 12:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-15 13:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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
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
2012-02-22 20:25 ` Glenn Morris
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
2011-03-15 18:11 ` Lennart Borgman
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