GNU bug report logs - #499
23.0.60; minibuffer tab completion regression

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:55:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: James Cloos <cloos <at> jhcloos.com>
Cc: 499 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#499: 23.0.60; minibuffer tab completion regression
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:15:41 -0400

> In short, pathname tab completion used to ignore everything at and right
> of point whereas now it does not.

Indeed, it does now: it constrains the list of possible completions to
those that include the text after point.

E.g. if your minibuffer is "/foo/bat.c" you can place point after "bat"
and hit TAB to complete to a filename among "bat*.c".

You can get the old behavior with one of the following:
- C-k TAB C-y
- customizing completion-styles: you can for example replace `basic' by
  `emacs22' to get back Emacs-22's behavior.  Note that if you select
  `emacs21' you won't get this behavior since Emacs-21 (and all previous
  Emacs) did not ignore the text after point.


        Stefan
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