Re: [Bug: 21.4.20] directory completion in shell not working

Well, it works better anyway. After I change directory a la "cd "GroundOps\AirportAppSuite\interfaces\"" and then do Ctrl-xf to find a file it defaults to "v:\GroundOps\".

-----Original Message----- From: ethersoft(a)gmail.com [mailto:ethersoft＠gmail.com] On Behalf Of Vin Shelton Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:11 PM To: Aaron Stambler Cc: Stephen J. Turnbull; xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: Re: [Bug: 21.4.20] directory completion in shell not working Dear Aaron, On 1/11/07, Aaron Stambler <Aaron.Stambler(a)wnco.com&gt; wrote: > The shell I am using is cmd.exe from \WINDOWS\system32\ on Windows XP > SP2. There was more information in my original e-mail about what > exactly happens: > > I start up a shell with M-x shell. The shell starts up on C drive. > Then at the prompt I type "cd Prog" and then press the Tab key. The > command is completed as "cd Program Files\" which is what I would > expect. > I press the Enter key. If I do a "dir" at this point I will see one > of the subdirectories is XEmacs. > At a prompt I type "cd XE" and press the Tab key. I get the error "No > completions of XE". However if again I type "cd Prog" and press Tab > it completes to "cd Program Files\" again. The shell buffer is no > longer keeping track of the current directory it seems. > Thanks for the accurate recipe - I'm sorry it's taken me so long to investigate this bug. I don't quite know what's going on yet, but I can offer you a (slightly? annoying) workaround. The problem has to do with comint (I think) parsing the current directory, and the space in "Program Files" is getting XEmacs confused. If you type: cd "Prog<TAB>" that is, type quotation marks before the Prog and after the <TAB> key, then XEmacs will be able to continue to track the current directory.