Carbon Emacs: minibuffer-complete-word not working for files (mac os x 10.4.8)

[Les Gasser]

I downloaded Seiji Zenitani's (very nice!) GNU emacs (version of 1/22/07) from 
the
Apple 3rd party site for use on a fairly new Intel Macbook Pro with OS
X 10.4.8. The configuration is vanilla as downloaded.

The command "minibuffer-complete-word" is not working as expected *for files*.
Specifically,

 CTL-XF                 ;;; opens the minibuffer with a default path for the 
buffer shown
 <several characters>   ;;; Type first few chars of an existing file or dir
 SPC                    ;;; should invoke "minibuffer-complete-word" but just 
inserts a space

The same sequence works fine for *commands*:

 ESC-X                  ;;; opens the minibuffer with "M-x " shown
 <several characters>   ;;; Type first few chars of an emacs command
 SPC                    ;;; does invoke "minibuffer-complete-word" correctly 
and completes the command

Also, using TAB [which is, I think,  bound to "minibuffer-complete"]
seems to work as expected for both files and commands, e.g.:

 CTL-XF                 ;;; opens the minibuffer with a default path for the 
buffer shown
 <several characters>   ;;; Type first few chars of an existing file or dir
 TAB                    ;;; invokes "minibuffer-complete" and completes the 
(long, unique) filename

-- Les Gasser




In GNU Emacs 22.0.92.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.8.2, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
 of 2007-01-19 on potato.local
X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.8
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-arch i386 -arch 
ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI -DUSE_MAC_TSM''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  mac-print-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mac-input-method-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<return> <return> C-x b t <return> a s d a s d <return>
<escape> x c o u SPC C-g C-x C-f S y s SPC <backspace>
t SPC <backspace> / SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g <help-echo>
<help-echo> d <help-echo> <help-echo> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <help-echo> C-g <escape> x r e p o r t
SPC SPC SPC <return>

Recent messages:

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

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