GNU bug report logs - #25807
24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Colin <my.old.email.sucked <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 06:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25807 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Colin <my.old.email.sucked <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:28:18 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> [...] We are looking for a way to reject non-existing directories, but
> accept existing ones and wildcards, when the user types RET in these
> cases.

I think in order to do that we would have to figure out whether a given
filename expands to some existing filenames or not, and this also for
handled ones.  The last part of which seems to be difficult.

A more simpler and less general approach would be the addition of a
user-option, i.e.  list-directory-use-wildcards.

-ap
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 222 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.