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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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:00:17 +0100

Suppose you have a defcustom with a ":type 'directory". Then you are
supposed to be able to use widget-complete to make it easier to fill
in this list. There are (at least) two problems with this on w32:

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

- widget-complete is bound to M-TAB. This is by default bound to
Alt-Tab which is not available to applications on w32.

GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-12-29 on LENNART-69DE564
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 316 days ago.

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