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Re: address@hidden: PC-do-completion with directories adding stars.]


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: address@hidden: PC-do-completion with directories adding stars.]
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:31:50 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I am not the OP, but here are the details.
> If you do `emacs -q -nbc' and then "C-x C-f" then put "~/a/b/c" in the
> minibuffer, while there is no directory ~/a, and then type <tab> you get
> the error message:

> minibuffer-complete: Opening directory: no such file or directory,
> /home/teirllm/a/b/

> If now you do `M-x partial-completion-mode' and repeat the experiment,
> you get:

> read-file-name-internal: Opening directory: no such file or directory,
> /home/teirllm/a*/b*/

When I try it, I don't get that.  Instead I just see "[Ambiguous dir name]"
appended to the minibuffer for 2 seconds.


        Stefan




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