GNU bug report logs - #28615
25.3; rgrep, grep-read-files confusingly completes file names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ヌエルモリノ <vianchielfaura <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 07:03:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Allen Li <vianchielfaura <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28615: [PATCH] Clarify what grep-read-files wants
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:55:26 +0300

> From: Allen Li <vianchielfaura <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:43:59 -0700
> Cc: 28615-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Why did you not change the collection function?

Because there could be a file called literally like one of the
shorthands in grep-files-aliases, or whose name includes those
shorthands as a substring.

> As I noted in the bug, most of the completions that would be
> provided by read-file-name-internal don't work

IMO, that's okay, because wildcards cannot be meaningfully completed
on.
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