Package: emacs;
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: 7924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#7924: 23.2.91; Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:48:29 +0000
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. In any case, it would be nice to lower users’ expectations by pointing out in the docstring for cd, and in the manual, that it doesn’t apply to interactive completion. In GNU Emacs 23.2.91.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0) of 2011-01-13 on canta Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t recentf-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t icomplete-mode: t global-whitespace-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t yas/global-mode: t yas/minor-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b <return> C-x 1 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-s C D P A T H C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-h v c d - p a t h <return> C-x b <return> M-x c d <return> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <backspace> g p <tab> <backspace> r e <backspace> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> C-g C-x b * s h <return> g r e p SPC c d - p a t h S-SPC ~ ? . <backspace> <backspace> / . e m a c s . d / * <return> <up> <down> M-p . e l <return> M-p <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> C D P A T H <return> <up> <down> M-p <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <M-backspace> <backspace> <M-backspace> d e s <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e m a c s . d / <backspace> <tab> e e <tab> <backspace> s <tab> <return> M-p <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <right> <M-backspace> c d - p a t h <return> c d SPC g r e p - c <backspace> d d <backspace> e c o m p r e s s <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-> C-x b <return> C-s r e a d - C-a M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <ret urn> Recent messages: No completions of ~/.des Type space to flush; repeat completion command to scroll No completions of ~/.emacs.dee Completing file name... 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