GNU bug report logs - #7924
23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading

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Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:41:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.2.91

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 7924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7924: 23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:34:24 +0000

On 29 January 2011 23:29, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> Both in the manual and in the docstring for `cd', one might reasonably
>> infer (as I did!) that CDPATH will be searched when completing relative
>> directory names, but this is not the case.
>>
>> Is there in fact any way to get this to work? It’s something that one
>> can do nicely in bash in a terminal, for example, but not in shell-mode.
>
> I think this needs new code in `read-file-name-internal' (the completion
> function for read-file-name).

Fair enough, but in that case is it worth adding "(this does not work
with filename completion)" to the docstring and manual?

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