Re: ido shows wrong completions

[Kim F. Storm]

Matthieu Moy <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a ~/local/ and a ~/local-mirror/ directory in my $HOME.
>
> With ido enabled, when I do C-x C-f ~/local/ TAB TAB, the list of
> completion is the list of files in my $HOME, with the 7th character
> highlighted, whereas it should list $HOME/local/.
>

Actually, this is a feature rather than a bug.

The first TAB gives you the completions for the current pattern
in the current directory.  So it shows the possible
completions of ~/local/ in ~.

If there are many completions, subsequent TABs will scroll the
completions window.

When you have tabbed through all completions, the next TAB will
go back to the first page, but this time showing you ALL the
elements in the current directory.

Since there are only two completions for /local/, the first TAB shows
then both, so the second TAB shows the first page of ALL elements.

To get the completions for ~/local/, you must hit RET before the
first TAB.


If you have some better idea how to handle this, please tell me.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk