[6710] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.2N: emacs filename completion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 26 17:33:37 1990
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 90 17:33:23 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: pit-manager
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2N
Display type: apa16
megapel
What were you trying to do?
Filename completion with the following files in a directory:
/tmp/frep
/tmp/frep2
/tmp/frep-frep
Note that the "2" does not appear to be relevant -- any
character or sequence of characters (other than hyphen) can go
there.
What's wrong:
Type C-x C-f "/tmp/frep" and hit the tab key -- it says
"[Complete, but not unique]". Fine, so hit the space-bar.
Instead of giving a list of the three files above, it
completes on the hyphen and ignores /tmp/frep2. If you delete
/tmp/frep-frep and do the same thing, it gives a list of
/tmp/frep and /tmp/frep2 when you hit the spacebar.
What should have happened:
They hyphen shouldn't cause things to get confused -- it
should give a file list instead of completing to the name with
the hyphen in it.
jik
