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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory
	on w32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:18:05 -0400

>   emacs -Q
>   Paste to *scratch* this code:

>       (defcustom my-dir nil
>           "doc"
>          :type 'directory)

>   Eval it.
>   M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET

Problem here: nil is not a directory, so the above defcustom is not
valid.  Oddly enough Customize does not signal the error, and instead
gets into a weird state.  Once you set my-dir to a string, things work
much better.


        Stefan
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 172 days ago.

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