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Re: a bug rendering ido unusable
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: a bug rendering ido unusable |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:22:56 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have recompiled Emacs from CVS today and found that ido no longer
>> differentiates between files and directories. E.g. when I type
>> '~/ema RET' it opens directory '~/emacs' in dired mode, instead of
>> navigating into it inside the minibuffer. It must be a bug since
>> I don't see how that is anywhere near useful.
>>
>> OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any recent modifications of ido, so
>> this might be a problem in some other place, e.g. in a function
>> that does is-this-a-directory check.
>>
>> This is on GNU/Linux, could matter. 'emacs -q' shows the same
>> behavior after 'M-x ido-mode'.
> There has been a lot of changes to the basic completion stuff - maybe
> some of those changes broke ido.
Yes, that's the most likely explanation.
> I don't have time to look into it at this time - so if someone else
> could take a look I'd appreciate it.
> Stefan, do you know what might have happened ??
The handling of completion predicate together with
read-file-name-internal has changed and I think it's the most
likely culprit. I haven't had time to look into it yet, tho,
Stefan