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file completion in *shell*

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 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.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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