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Re: Environment variable expansion bug in file name completion

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From: Kevin Gallagher
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:21
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In article <cdCB02Hq2fmj01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> tlp00@ras.amdahl.com writes:
>if i do a C-x C-f (M-x find-file) and type: 
>
>  Find file: $SRC<space>
>
>i would expect to see (assuming "setenv SRC /usr/project/src"):
>
>  Find file: /usr/project/src/
>
>but instead i get:
>
>  Find file: /
>
>BUT if i do:
>  
>   Find file: $SRC/foo.c
>
>All works fine, i edit file /usr/project/src/foo.c
>
>So, substitute-in-file-name works ok but somewhere something is getting clipped.
>Any ideas....   i'm seeing this with 18.55.

Try the following:

        Find File: $SRC<tab><space>

In the minibuffer, TAB is bound to minibuffer-complete and SPACE is bound to
minibuffer-complete-word.  These are both native functions defined in the C
source code to GNU Emacs.  It appears that minibuffer-complete-word is broken
while minibuffer-complete is not.  I don't think substitute-in-file-name is
involved here.

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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Environment variable expansion bug in file name completion
Message-ID: <1992Dec22.222134.17221@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:21:34 GMT
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