Re: partial completion doesn't

[Richard Stallman]

I don't think anyone is maintaining complete.el nowadays.
Would someone like to work on this?

To: address@hidden
Subject: partial completion doesn't
From: address@hidden (Kai
 =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:42:55 +0200

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have the following directory structure:

/----[ cd ~/work/grossjoh/doc/2002; ls -Fla ]
| total 28
| drwxrwx---    7 grossjoh crew         4096 Sep  4 16:21 ./
| drwxrwx---    4 grossjoh crew         4096 May 19 17:58 ../
| drwxrwx---    5 grossjoh crew         4096 Aug  5 15:25 2002-05-gi/
| drwxrwx---    4 grossjoh crew         4096 Jun 19 23:26 2002-06-dstadel/
| drwxrwx---    4 grossjoh crew         4096 Aug 28 21:37 
2002-08-sigir-xml-workshop/
| drwxrwx---    4 grossjoh crew         4096 Sep  4 19:03 2002-09-dstadel/
| drwxrwx---    2 grossjoh crew         4096 Sep  4 16:21 CVS/
\----

I start Emacs like this: "emacs -q -no-site-file".
Then I do M-x partial-completion-mode RET.
Then I type C-x C-f ~/work/grossjoh/doc/2002/2.
Then I hit the TAB key.  Emacs completes to the following:

        ~/work/grossjoh/doc/2002/2002-0

Now I type "-d", so that I see the following incomplete filename:

        ~/work/grossjoh/doc/2002/2002-0-d
                                       ^

I expect that Emacs will position the cursor at the spot indicated
above.  I further expect that I get a *Completions* buffer that shows
me the alternatives 2002-06-dstadel and 2002-09-dstadel.

When I hit TAB once, I get the "2002-0-d" expanded to
"2002-0-dstadel", and point remains on the last "-".  That's good.
However, hitting TAB again (expecting to get the *Completions* buffer)
I get the following error message (snarfed from *Messages*):

read-file-name-internal: Opening directory: no such file or directory, 
/home-local/grossjoh/work/grossjoh/doc/2002/2002-0-dstadel/

Hitting `?' instead of TAB at that spot produces the correct
*Completions* buffer.

Can you reproduce this problem?  (Emacs 21.2 behaves the same way for
me.)

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2002-09-04 on lucy
configured using `configure --with-x --with-x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib 
--with-x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff 
--with-gif --with-png --prefix=/home-local/grossjoh/sw/emacs-21.0'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: address@hidden
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
q n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n <return> d d 
q s n n n n n n n n n n n s <switch-frame> v ~ / w 
r k <backspace> <backspace> o r k <tab> g r o <tab> 
d o <tab> 2 <backspace> c <tab> 2 <tab> <tab> - d s 
<tab> <tab> ? C-e ? <escape> x A <tab> <escape> a 9 
<tab> t . t e x <tab> <return> <switch-frame> M-x r 
e p - e m - b u g <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /usr/sw/emacs/21.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex-11.11/auto/slidesec.el 
(source)...done
Loading /usr/sw/emacs/21.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex-11.11/auto/semlayer.el 
(source)...done
Applying style hooks... done
Updating section menu...
Updating environment menu...
Sorting 
Removing duplicates... done
Updating modify environment menu...
Updating...done
Loading emacsbug...done

kai
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