GNU bug report logs - #30271
shell mode completion won't complete directory names in gzip arguments

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>

Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:23:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.91

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 30271 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 30271 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30271: 26.0.91;
 shell mode completion sometimes fails to complete
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:21:03 -0700

close 30271 28.1
thanks

Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Mike Kupfer wrote:
>
>> I suspect that the completion code is trying to be clever, figuring that
>> directories are not compressable, so "gzip Desktop" would not make
>> sense.
>
> I've verified that the completion code is going through
> #'pcomplete/gzip.  From inspection, I see that #'pcmpl-gnu-zipped-files
> only considers regular files, so directories get filtered out.
>
>> But this just gets in the way if what I want to compress is a
>> file in Desktop.

This should now be fixed on master.  The fix will be in Emacs 28.1.
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 271 days ago.

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