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bug#2445: 23.0.90; file name completion GCs a lot
From: |
Richard M Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#2445: 23.0.90; file name completion GCs a lot |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:52:44 -0400 |
> I have a feeling that (file-name-completion "" "xmail/") ought to
> first check (file-directory-p "xmail/") and return t if that does.
No: if all files in xmail/ start with "aba", then the above should
return "aba".
I am not convinced it should do that. Maybe
(file-name-completion "xmail" "") should do that,
but I tend to think that (file-name-completion "" "xmail/"), with the
empty string as file name, should not complete anything.
There is a semantic confusion going on here.
The question that (try-completion "xmail/" table) answers
is not the question that its caller wants to ask.