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bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32 |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:27:52 +0100 |
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> (defcustom my-dir nil "doc" :type 'directory)
>>
>> M-x customize-option RET my-dir RET
>
> You get a type mismatch, of course, since nil is not a directory.
>
>> Place point in the directory value field and erase "nil"
>> that is there. Now in the empty directory value field
>> press ESC-TAB. This fails
>
> Try again, with a valid directory as the default value - e.g. "c:/foo/"
Ah, you are right. It kind of works with a valid default. (And this
does not have to be an existing directory.)
That was quite unexpected. And it is of course very inconvenient that
you can not customize a variable the normal way just because the
default value happens to be bad.
I think similar troubles in other places in custom too, but I can't
remember where now.
> Keep in mind too that the completion uses `default-directory'. Dunno whether
> that's always appropriate, but that's what it uses.
Thanks. I see a little bit different behaviour, but, yes, there is
another bug. This is what I see:
I looked at two rather similar cases that does not behave the same:
1) Default is a non-existing directory. If I try to complete this I
get completion candidates. It looks like it complets against
default-directory.
2) Default is "", but I enter the same directory into the directory
field in custom. Now I get no completion candidates.
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32, Drew Adams, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32,
Lennart Borgman <=
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory on w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32, Drew Adams, 2011/03/15
- bug#8256: widget-complete does not complete for type 'directory onw32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/03/15