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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: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:38:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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

> Then you must have a subdirectory of ~/ starting with `a'.

No, that wasn't it.  It turns out the difference is that my shell is zsh.
If I set SHELL to bash I can now reproduce your description.

This happens to illustrate what I said earlier:
> ... Of course, this part of the code is difficult to get right because it
> uses an underlying shell to do the globbing ...

I'll see if I can find a good fix for it,


        Stefan




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