From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 4708@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4708: 23.1; completion-try-completion adds an extra $: $$HOMj
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:13:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljjfcb3e.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E891DD6303114FE184F1FA4D2517DF4A@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:05:32 -0700")
>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
> M-: (completion-try-completion "c:/some-dir/$HOMj" nil 16)
> correctly returns: (c:/some-dir/$HOMEj" . 17)
> M-: (completion-try-completion "c:/some-dir/$HOMj" nil 17)
> returns: ("c:/some-dir/$$HOMj" . 18)
> That doesn't seem correct. Is it correct to have $$ here? If so, can
> you please explain it a bit (why)?
File name entry assigns a special meaning to $ for envvars, but in order
to be able to refer to the file "$HOME", it offers an escape system
where you write "$$HOME". Since Emacs-21 or so, I've made this escape
unnecessary in the case where the $ is used unambiguously (because
there is no envvar of this name), so if you enter "$HOMj", Emacs know
you don't refer to the file name contained in the envvar `HOMj', but to
the file named $HOMj.
The completion code need to do such unescape/reescaping in order to work
properly and it currently re-escapes in a conservative way (i.e. it
re-escapes $HOMj into $$HOMj even tho it's not strictly necessary).
File name completion is designed to result a string appropriate for
substitute-in-file-name, and indeed
(substitute-in-file-name "c:/some-dir/$$HOMj")
->
"c:/some-dir/$HOMj"
> Also, if this is correct behavior, then please explain this in the doc
> string of `completion-try-completion'.
It can't be described there, because that function applies to any kind
of completion, whereas the above only applies to completions using
read-file-name-internal.
Stefan
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2009-10-12 19:05 ` bug#4708: 23.1; completion-try-completion adds an extra $: $$HOMj Drew Adams
2009-10-13 20:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-13 22:20 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 3:36 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-14 4:10 ` bug#4708: marked as done (23.1; completion-try-completion adds an extra $: $$HOMj) Emacs bug Tracking System
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