Re: a bug rendering ido unusable

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have recompiled Emacs from CVS today and found that ido no longer
>> differentiates between files and directories.  E.g. when I type
>> '~/ema RET' it opens directory '~/emacs' in dired mode, instead of
>> navigating into it inside the minibuffer.  It must be a bug since
>> I don't see how that is anywhere near useful.
>> 
>> OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any recent modifications of ido, so
>> this might be a problem in some other place, e.g. in a function
>> that does is-this-a-directory check.
>> 
>> This is on GNU/Linux, could matter.  'emacs -q' shows the same
>> behavior after 'M-x ido-mode'.

> There has been a lot of changes to the basic completion stuff - maybe
> some of those changes broke ido.

Yes, that's the most likely explanation.

> I don't have time to look into it at this time - so if someone else
> could take a look I'd appreciate it.

> Stefan, do you know what might have happened ??

The handling of completion predicate together with
read-file-name-internal has changed and I think it's the most
likely culprit.  I haven't had time to look into it yet, tho,


        Stefan