GNU bug report logs - #4596
file completion in *shell*

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "A. Soare" <alinsoar <at> voila.fr>
To: "Emacs   Pretest-Bug  [emacs-pretest-bug]" <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: file completion in *shell*
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:37:35 +0200 (CEST)

I report again a bug that repeated to me many times;

I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z, when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory "X", not from Z, as expected.

To me TAB executes so:

TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command comint-dynamic-complete

Inside comint-dynamic-complete, one executes the hook comint-dynamic-complete-functions, which are

(comint-replace-by-expanded-history comint-dynamic-complete-filename)

I will keep the session opened, and maybe somebody tells me what to report more than that.





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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4596: file completion in *shell*
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:15:31 -0600

A. Soare wrote:
> I report again a bug that repeated to me many times;
> 
> I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z, when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory "X", not from Z, as expected.
> 
> To me TAB executes so:
> 
> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command comint-dynamic-complete
> 
> Inside comint-dynamic-complete, one executes the hook comint-dynamic-complete-functions, which are
> 
> (comint-replace-by-expanded-history comint-dynamic-complete-filename)
> 
> I will keep the session opened, and maybe somebody tells me what to report more than that.

C-h v default-directory

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Message #18 received at 4596 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: alinsoar <at> voila.fr
Cc: 4596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4596: file completion in *shell*
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:15:01 -0400

tags 4596 moreinfo
stop

"A. Soare" wrote:

> I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z,
> when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory
> "X", not from Z, as expected.

Emacs tries to keep track of which directory you are in, but it is
straightforward to confuse it. Eg:

emacs -Q -f shell
cd ~
alias foobar=cd
foobar /tmp

and Emacs will still think you are in ~/.

So we need to know what you did starting from emacs -Q to confuse it,
before we can say if it is something that can reasonably be fixed.

Message #25 received at 4596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: alinsoar <at> voila.fr, 4596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4596: file completion in *shell*
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:47:55 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> So we need to know what you did starting from emacs -Q to confuse it,
> before we can say if it is something that can reasonably be fixed.

More information was requested more than a year ago, but was apparently
not given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug still exists,
please reopen the report.

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