GNU bug report logs - #7779
Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 7779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7779 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7779: Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 03:35:38 +0200
>> Yes. *AND* provide a precise, step-by-step recipe, starting from
>> "emacs -Q" (with stock Emacs, not your patched version), and
>> explaining clearly what you do get and what do you expected to get.

I wrote before:

  "- The completion is case sensitive. However the file system is case
  insensitive on w32."

Testing now with downloaded binaries emacs-20110627-bin-i386.zip
completion behaves even more strange. Try this:

  emacs -Q
  M-x load-library RET eshell RET
  M-x customize-option RET eshell-directory-name RET

Then enter "c:/" in the directory field and do

  M-x widget-complete

I would expect that to return the directory names.

After this I tried "c:/E". I have directories started with "c:/E" and
"c:/e". I only got those with "c:/e" (and some other things that
should not match at all).




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