bug#32215: 27.0.50; Minibuffer completion fails with /~<partial-name>

[Noam Postavsky]

On 20 July 2018 at 04:31, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:02:11 -0400 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:19:36 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:55:18 +0200
>>>>>
>>>>> 0. emacs -Q
>>>>> 1. C-x d / ~ TAB
>>>>>    This pops up a *Completions* buffer showing directory names of all
>>>>>    members of (system-users), e.g. steve/
>>>>> 2. Continuing from step 1, when I type any of 's TAB', 'st TAB', 'ste
>>>>>    TAB' or 'stev TAB', Emacs responds with [No match], but 'steve TAB'
>>>>>    completes to steve/
>>>>>
>>>>> The failure only happens with '/~<partial-name>', typing e.g. '~/Downl
>>>>> TAB' here completes to ~/Downloads/
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't happen here, FWIW.  Strange.
>>>
>>> Strange indeed, assuming you tested on GNU/Linux or another POSIX
>>> system, since IIUC on MS-Windows system-users returns only
>>> user-real-login-name (at least it does here on Emacs 25.3 under Windows
>>> 8).  I also tested on another GNU/Linux system I have with Emacs 24.3
>>> and see exactly the same behavior I described above.
>>
>> I see it on both Windows and GNU/Linux.
>
> Like Eli, I'm surprised you see it on Windows.

Oh, I skipped the TAB in step 1. With that, all of the leading text
before the ~ is removed, so there is no problem (and it indeed
completes immediately to my current user on Windows).

>
>>                                          I notice that the after typing
>> the first letter of the user name, the leading "/" is no longer in
>> shadow face,
>
> Yes, I didn't notice that when I tested before but I do now.

Ah, so when you hit TAB, the leading "/" is not removed?