Re: Filename completion for the 'file widget

[Suraj Acharya]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Suraj Acharya wrote:
>  > Since I prefer this second non-expanding behavior I managed to get it to
>  > work on my local machine by using (concat directory completion) in place
>  > of (expand-file-name completion directory) in widget-file-complete.
>
> That doesn't seem right.  I was going to suggest something like

Why do you say it's not right? It gives me the behavior I expect, ie 
relative paths stay relative and I still get completion for them. It 
uses default-directory for the current buffer as the base for the 
relative path completion.

>     (file-relative-name (expand-file-name completion directory) directory)
>
> but I realized that's equivalent to just completion, so I took a look
> at the code in wid-edit.el.  But it's not clear to me (1) why
> widget-file-complete expands the pattern nor (2) why it can safely
> assume the pattern has a non-nil directory that can be passed as the
> second arg to file-name-completion.

(2) is definitely a bug. Asking for completion in a blank 'file widget 
gives "let*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" in the minibuffer.