From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: a bug rendering ido unusable
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:22:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfxt458ok.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ej8ofj3g.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:26:43 +0200")
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have recompiled Emacs from CVS today and found that ido no longer
>> differentiates between files and directories. E.g. when I type
>> '~/ema RET' it opens directory '~/emacs' in dired mode, instead of
>> navigating into it inside the minibuffer. It must be a bug since
>> I don't see how that is anywhere near useful.
>>
>> OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any recent modifications of ido, so
>> this might be a problem in some other place, e.g. in a function
>> that does is-this-a-directory check.
>>
>> This is on GNU/Linux, could matter. 'emacs -q' shows the same
>> behavior after 'M-x ido-mode'.
> There has been a lot of changes to the basic completion stuff - maybe
> some of those changes broke ido.
Yes, that's the most likely explanation.
> I don't have time to look into it at this time - so if someone else
> could take a look I'd appreciate it.
> Stefan, do you know what might have happened ??
The handling of completion predicate together with
read-file-name-internal has changed and I think it's the most
likely culprit. I haven't had time to look into it yet, tho,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-30 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 17:05 a bug rendering ido unusable Paul Pogonyshev
2008-04-29 21:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-04-30 3:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-30 5:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-30 6:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-30 7:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-30 20:15 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2008-05-01 23:48 ` Len Trigg
2008-05-01 23:48 ` Len Trigg
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