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

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Message #20 received at control <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

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"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.

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