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Filename completion in emacs 18.57

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 06:51
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Emacs 18.57, on sparc / SunOS 4.1.1 or pc532 / Minix 1.5h.

If I have a directory with the files `emacs', `emacs.bar', `emacsx' and
`emacs-bar', type ^X^Femacs and use space to complete the file names,
emacs completes to `emacs-' and then `emacs-bar' although there are
two other alternatives besides `-' to complete to.


Also, the documentation on completion says:

>  Normally, a completion command that finds the next character is
>undetermined automatically displays a list of all possible
>completions.  If the variable `completion-auto-help' is set to `nil',
>this does not happen, and you must type `?' to display the possible
>completions.

This only happens when space is used for completion, not with
tab.  Either emacs or the documentation is wrong.

//Jyrki
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