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28.0.50; Incorrect username completion results reported by `read-file-name-interal`

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 49776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#49776: 28.0.50; Incorrect username completion results reported by `read-file-name-interal`
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 08:13:08 +0200

Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:

>> ustring here is "~man", and the boundary is 1, so completion--twq-all
>> returns "/foo/~man" (because it stripped off 1 character at the start).
>> 
>> But it should have stripped off "~/foo/~", I think?  Somehow?
>
> Yes. I think the problem here is the wrong completion boundary. The
> completion boundary should be placed such that the shadowed path is not
> part of the completion. In this case the completion boundary should be
> behind the second "~".

Yup.  But my understanding of the completion code is extremely limited,
so hopefully somebody who understands it better can propose a fix...

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