GNU bug report logs - #41705
28.0.50; minibuffer completion of ".../*/*" shouldn't be "...//"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 09:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: 41705 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41705: 28.0.50; minibuffer completion of ".../*/*" shouldn't be "...//"
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:35:12 +0000

Recipe:

./emacs -Q
enter: C-x C-f * / * <tab>

expected result: a list of sub-subdirectories of the emacs src dir. A
"Find file: .../emacs/src/*/" prompt.

actual result: prompt says "Find file: .../emacs/src//", further tab
completion uses the root directory.

I'd noticed this for a while now, but thought it was a local
configuration issue. It happens in emacs -Q, too, though.

For master, we should fix minibuffer.el properly, but I'm not sure what
to do on emacs-27. It's a regression (from Emacs 26) that might annoy
many users of tab completion in the minibuffer.
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