GNU bug report logs - #1266
23.0.60; Cycling between possible completion points in partial-completion-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tassilo Horn <thorn <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Tassilo Horn <thorn <at> fastmail.fm>
Subject: bug#1266 closed by Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> (Re: 
 bug#1266: 23.0.60; Cycling between possible completion points in 
 partial-completion-mode)
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#1266: 23.0.60; Cycling between possible completion points in partial-completion-mode

It has been closed by Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Markus Triska <markus.triska <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 1266-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1266: 23.0.60; Cycling between possible completion points in partial-completion-mode
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:43:19 -0500
>    "For example, M-x p-c-m expands to M-x partial-completion-mode since
>     no other command begins with that sequence of characters"
>
> For M-x p-c-m, I get as completions:
>
>    partial-completion-mode
>    pmail-edit-current-message

pmail-* will be renamed to rmail-* before the release, so we don't need
to worry about this.

This thread seems to be over, so I'm closing the bug in the tracker.

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From: Tassilo Horn <thorn <at> fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; Cycling between possible completion points in partial-completion-mode
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:18 +0100
Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org mailing list.

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

I have the following directories below ~/uni/repos/

  re-group/
  redseeds-main/
  redseeds-uko/

When I do

  C-x C-f ~/uni/repos/re-<TAB>

the completions are shown and point moves before the hyphen.  To
complete to re-group/ I have to move point explicitly to the end using
`C-e' and enter the g followed by an additional <TAB>.

I think it would be very convenient if <TAB> cycled between all possible
completion points, starting with the last position if the current entry
matches the start of an item completely.  So in my example

  C-x C-f ~/uni/repos/re-<TAB>

would pop up the completion list and let point stay at the end.  An
additional <TAB> would move point to before the hyphen.  Another <TAB>
would move it to the end again.

Is that possible?

It's all tested with emacs -Q.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2008-10-24 on thinkpad
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--program-suffix=-emacs-23' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-23' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--with-freetype' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-hesiod' '--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -ggdb -O1 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  partial-completion-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  window-number-meta-mode: t
  window-number-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  exec-abbrev-cmd-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<left> <left> <right> <right> <right> <right> <M-backspace> 
w e n n SPC m รถ g l i c h M-q M-q <down> <up> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> M-q <down> <down> <down> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <M-backspace> M-q <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> C-c C-c c <return> c <return> SPC c 
<return> <return> SPC c l s <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
C-c g <up> <up> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> ^ <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
q <return> c <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <down> <return> 
B <backspace> y q <return> <return> <return> q C-h 
i u u u u m e m a <tab> <return> s p a r t i a l - 
c o m p l e t i o n <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <up> <up> q C-x C-f u n <tab> r <tab> 
r e <tab> l <backspace> - <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> 
<tab> <tab> <tab> C-g M-x r e b <return> r e p <tab> 
<return>

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