Subject: bug#15385: [Eshell] Directory completion overwrites preceding characters

From: Aidan Gauland <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:55:51 +1200

Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:

> Aidan Gauland <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> The bug seems to be in pcomplete, line 1140 of pcomplete.el, to be
>> exact:
>>
>>   (delete-char (- (length (comint-quote-filename stub))))
>
> With helm completion enabled, this bug is not reproductible, if that
> help you can look at the code here:
> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/helm-eshell.el
>
> How to enable helm completion in eshell:
> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki#wiki-helmeshellcompletion

Oh great, this gets even weirder.  Thanks for the info!