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27.2; MS-Windows: M-n to auto-complete file path

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 27.2; M-n to auto-complete file path
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 16:21:52 +0100

This report is specific to the MS-Windows port of Emacs.

Recipe from 'emacs -Q':
------------
1. Type in the *scratch* buffer the absolute path
   of some existing file of your system, using backslashes.
   For example: "c:\tmp\myfile".
2. Move the cursor (point) just after the ':' in the file path.
3. Type 'C-x C-f M-n' (that is, try to visit the file, by using
   the auto-completion file-path feature).
------------

The behavior I see is that the auto-completion produces just 'c:/',
instead of the expected 'c:/tmp/myfile'.

I see the expected behavior when I move the cursor to any other
position of the file path (in step 2).

In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2021-03-26 built on CIRROCUMULUS
Repository revision: deef5efafb70f4b171265b896505b92b6eef24e6
Repository branch: HEAD
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
System Description: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
(v6.3.0.9600.20144)

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY W32NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2
HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ESN
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

--
Dani Moncayo

Message #10 received at 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 27.2; M-n to auto-complete file path
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:47:59 +0200

Ping

I hit this bug from time to time.  I'd be grateful if someone could
look into this.

TIA.

--
Dani Moncayo

Message #13 received at 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51612: 27.2; M-n to auto-complete file path
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:18:31 +0300

> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:47:59 +0200
> 
> Ping
> 
> I hit this bug from time to time.  I'd be grateful if someone could
> look into this.

I tried just now, both with the current emacs-30 branch and the master
branch, and couldn't reproduce the behavior you describe.  I _can_
reproduce with older Emacs versions, up to and including Emacs 29.3.

So I guess this bug was solved in Emacs 30, and we can close it.

Message #16 received at 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51612: 27.2; M-n to auto-complete file path
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:25:18 +0200

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:47:59 +0200
> >
> > Ping
> >
> > I hit this bug from time to time.  I'd be grateful if someone could
> > look into this.
>
> I tried just now, both with the current emacs-30 branch and the master
> branch, and couldn't reproduce the behavior you describe.  I _can_
> reproduce with older Emacs versions, up to and including Emacs 29.3.
>
> So I guess this bug was solved in Emacs 30, and we can close it.

OK -- for the record, I've detailed below the version I'm using now
(for which the problem does exist).

Currently I don't have another version for MS-Windows to test.

That said, I guess you are right.  Let's close this ticket then and
when I update my MS-Windows version I'll test this again.

Thanks!

-- 
Dani Moncayo


In GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-08-02 built on
 AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
System Description: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
(v6.3.0.9600.21620)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot
 --without-compress-install --with-tree-sitter CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB

(NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ESN
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Message #21 received at 51612-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 51612-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51612: 27.2; M-n to auto-complete file path
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:34:44 +0300

> From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:25:18 +0200
> Cc: 51612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
> > > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:47:59 +0200
> > >
> > > Ping
> > >
> > > I hit this bug from time to time.  I'd be grateful if someone could
> > > look into this.
> >
> > I tried just now, both with the current emacs-30 branch and the master
> > branch, and couldn't reproduce the behavior you describe.  I _can_
> > reproduce with older Emacs versions, up to and including Emacs 29.3.
> >
> > So I guess this bug was solved in Emacs 30, and we can close it.
> 
> OK -- for the record, I've detailed below the version I'm using now
> (for which the problem does exist).
> 
> Currently I don't have another version for MS-Windows to test.

You should be able to install 30.1 or the latest pretest 30.1.90 from
the GNU FTP or alpha sites.

> That said, I guess you are right.  Let's close this ticket then and
> when I update my MS-Windows version I'll test this again.

Closing.

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