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Article #98867Re: find-file mini-buffer completion
From: Joe Wells
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 17:53
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 1991 17:53
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In article <HOLLEN.91Feb12102350@fridge.megatek.UUCP> hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes: If I invoke find-file and in specifying the name of a file using an environment variable as part of the file name, the file is found precisely. If I do not happen to know the exact name of the file, but still use the environment variable to specify the directory and press space bar to obtain completion, read_minibuf (in the C source part of Emacs) does not know how to expand the environment variable. This doesn't work: C-x C-f $HOME SPC It replaces the contents of the minibuffer with a single "/". These do work: C-x C-f $HOME TAB C-x C-f $HOME/ SPC The failure of the first method appears to be a bug, since TAB does work, but SPC produces the wierd results. (emacs-version) "GNU Emacs 18.57.14 of Tue Feb 19 1991 on bigbird (berkeley-unix)" -- Enjoy, Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,3d7decee6672f1c3,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-22 09:53:40 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unreplyable!garbage From: jbw@BIGBIRD.BU.EDU (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: find-file mini-buffer completion Message-ID: <JBW.91Feb22125340@bigbird.bu.edu> Date: 22 Feb 91 17:53:40 GMT References: <HOLLEN.91Feb12102350@fridge.megatek.UUCP> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Distribution: gnu Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 30 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu