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

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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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Message #8 received at 7924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 7924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7924: 23.2.91;
	Documentation about CDPATH is a little misleading
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:29:41 -0500

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).
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