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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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8256 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:11:27 +0100

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Customize does indicate the type mismatch, as usual via `(mismatch)'.

Yes. It writes that. And then goes into a weird state.
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