Re: ido.el reports possible completions wrongly

[Kim F. Storm]

Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes:

> Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>>
>>> Look at ido-max-directory-size.
>>> In this case C-a is your friend.
>>
>> The bug is that the message says:
>>
>>   "There are no possible completions of what you have typed"
>>
>> when in fact there are possible completions of what I have typed.

I just fixed this, so it will actually load the directory (despite it
is [too big] and show you the possible completions.

>
> I just noticed also, that if I immediately type a 2nd '?':
>
>   C-x C-f / u s r / b i n / g n u p l o ? ?
>
> then I see a giant list of 'possible completions':

This is what you would normally get once you have scrolled through the
list of possible matches the first time (i.e. all directory entries).

So since the first ? (and subsequent ?'es to scroll the completion
buffer) now works correctly, this also works ok now.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk