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bug#60359: 29.0.60; completion-auto-select set to t skips first argument
From: |
Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
bug#60359: 29.0.60; completion-auto-select set to t skips first argument when completing files |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:25:43 +0000 |
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>>
>> If the user option 'completion-auto-select' is set to t, then
>> pressing tab should pop up the completions buffer and select the
>> first option. This works well, unless a file name is being
>> completed. In that case, tab doesn't jump to completion buffer. In
>> fact it appears not to even open it by default. A second press
>> opens the buffer, but only jumps if you don't do anything else for
>> about half a second. A third press of the tab key jumps to the
>> second option. So if you press tab three times, without waiting,
>> you always skip the first completion suggestion.
>>
>> The issue can be reproduced with emacs -Q, by evaluating (setq
>> completion-auto-select t) and then opening a file using C-x C-f, in
>> presumably any directory.
>>
>
> Thanks for your bug report. If I set completion-auto-select in emacs
> -Q, C-x C-f C TAB (or TAB TAB, depending on the value of
> completion-auto-select) in the Emacs repository behaves as
> expected. However, C-x C-f src/ TAB does not. Is the latter case what
> you have in mind, or do I misunderstand what you mean? If not, the
> attached patch should fix that bug.
Yes, that is what I meant and the that fixed the bug.