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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: alinsoar <at> voila.fr

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:45:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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
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