GNU bug report logs - #8256
widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory
	on w32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:56:00 -0400

> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:22:13 +0100
> Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:26:11 +0100
> >> Cc:
> >>
> >> I can not complete directories in a custom buffer for something like this:
> >>
> >> (defcustom my-dir nil
> >>   "doc"
> >>   :type 'directory)
> >>
> >> Nothing happens when I call widget-complete.
> >
> > Does ESC-TAB complete in that case?
> 
> What do you mean? I just said it didn't?

No, you said you called widget-complete, but did not say what happens
if you type ESC-TAB.

The thing is, it works for me (on Windows), at least in Emacs 23.3.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 172 days ago.

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