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23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $

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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>
To: "Chong Yidong" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 279 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#279: 23.0.60; (minor) minibuffer file-name completion issue for files containing $
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47:41 +0200

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:
>> Files present on the system:
>>  /foo/$blah.xyzzy
>>  /foo/$blah.quux
>>
>> When pressing TAB twice to get completions for "/foo/$b", I noticed
>> that the fact that the $ gets escaped in the minibuffer seems to cause
>> the wrong letter to be highlighted in the *Completions* buffer
>> (i.e. the 'y' and 'u' are highlighted, respectively, instead of the
>> 'x' and 'q', respectively).
>
> I can't reproduce it in latest CVS.  Maybe it's been fixed in the
> meantime.  Do you still see this bug?

Now I get:
-> /foo
-> TAB
-> /foo/
-> TAB
-> /foo/$$blah.
-> TAB
-> /foo/$$blah. [no completions]

So I cannot reproduce the original problem with a CVS HEAD build, but
only in the sense that I don't get a *Completions* buffer at all.

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