GNU bug report logs - #18951
24.4.51; eshell-pcomplete removes asterisk when attempting completion

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 05:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.4.51

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Daniel Kraus <daniel <at> kraus.my>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 18951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18951: eshell-pcomplete removes asterisk when attempting completion
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0800

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Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> A good start would be to step through eshell-pcomplete with edebug and
> find the piece of code which deletes the asterisk.

It's in `pcomplete-parse-arguments` (in pcomplete.el)
Line 776 on master:
```
      (when (and begin (not pcomplete-show-list))
	(delete-region begin (point))
	(pcomplete-insert-entry "" pcomplete-stub))
```

Hope that helps.

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