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

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:50:18 -0700

>       (defcustom my-dir nil "doc" :type 'directory)
> 
>   M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET

You get a type mismatch, of course, since nil is not a directory.

>   Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil" 
>   that is there.  Now in the empty directory value field
>   press ESC-TAB. This fails

Try again, with a valid directory as the default value - e.g. "c:/foo/"

Keep in mind too that the completion uses `default-directory'.  Dunno whether
that's always appropriate, but that's what it uses.

But I agree that regardless of the initial type mismatch, you should be able to
type a legitimate directory prefix and get completion.

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