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23.1.50; Why doesn't eshell/pcomplete use ~ any more?

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From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Why doesn't eshell/pcomplete use ~ any more?
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:07:28 +0000

I just upgraded my Emacs.app to CVS 20091127 and eshell seems to behave
abnormally as compared to my previous version (CVS 20090922).

For example, if I 'cd ~', the prompt will be the absolute path of my
HOME dir instead of just '~' like in the previous version.

With (setq eshell-cmpl-ignore-case t), 'cd ~/l<TAB>' throws this error:

  pcomplete-insert-entry: Text is read-only
  pcomplete: Wrong type argument: integerp, nil [8 times]

Could someone take a look at this bug? Thank you.

Leo

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Message #10 received at 5067-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#5067: 23.1.50; Why doesn't eshell/pcomplete use ~ any more?
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:09:35 -0500

> For example, if I 'cd ~', the prompt will be the absolute path of my
> HOME dir instead of just '~' like in the previous version.

I installed a change which should fix it (unless you've customized
eshell-prompt-function, in which case you'll have to make the change in
your cutomization).

> With (setq eshell-cmpl-ignore-case t), 'cd ~/l<TAB>' throws this error:

>   pcomplete-insert-entry: Text is read-only
>   pcomplete: Wrong type argument: integerp, nil [8 times]

> Could someone take a look at this bug? Thank you.

Thanks for catching this.  It was some half-cooked change I have here
that I installed mistakenly as part of some other change.  I reverted it
now, so it should work as before.


        Stefan

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