GNU bug report logs - #73656
30.0.91; icomplete-vertical has no matches for M-x man RET chdir

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org>

Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 12:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.91

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 73656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org>
Cc: 73656 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73656: 30.0.91;
 icomplete-vertical has no matches for M-x man RET chdir
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:33:48 +0300
> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:38:04 +0000
> From:  Van Ly via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> The manpage auto-completions under icomplete-vertical mode won't list
> chdir(2), fchdir(2) but will list acct(2).
> 
> 
> 
> To demonstrate,
> 
>  1. start, emacs -Q
>  2. M-x icomplete-vertical
>  3. M-x man RET
> 
> then very slowly type with 3 second delay a character, c h d i r, from
> chd onwards the status feedback says [No matches], this is also the case
> for fchdir.  At the end of the full sequence chdir or fchdir, despite
> the status being [No matches] I depress RET and the manpage displays.
> 
> The manpage acct(2) will list in the auto-complete but if I type too
> quick the *Messages* buffer shows: Waiting for process to die...done

Most probably NetBSD-specific.




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