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Subject: bug#20937: 24.4; shell-mode: tab completion adds /. to directory, which is not helpful
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M-x shell
mkdir foo
rmdir foo <TAB> <TAB>

The argument to rmdir is completed to 'foo/.' (which is the initial
substring of 'foo/.' and 'foo/..').

There are not many cases when you really want to include the trailing /.
on a directory name.  Usually just giving the directory is sufficient,
and giving it with a trailing slash is okay.  Emacs could complete the
filename to include the trailing slash, but should not go further to
add the '.' character when the directory is empty.

In particular, 'rmdir foo/.' is an error; see GNU coreutils bug #20835.

Please change the tab completion in shell mode so that directories are
completed to the trailing slash, as foo/, but the special '.' and '..'
subdirectories are not considered for further completion.

In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
 of 2014-11-03 on wcl-linux04.wcl.local
Configured using:
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Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8
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  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
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  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
e r ; RET d r o p SPC t a b l e SPC C-x o C-x C-f ~=20
/ t DEL DEL t r a TAB d TAB C-g C-x C-f / h o m TAB=20
t r a d i TAB b TAB g h o TAB DEL DEL DEL h o TAB 2=20
0 1 5 0 6 0 3 0 1 3 TAB t b d a t a s t r e a m a s=20
TAB C-g C-x o t b d a t a s t r e a m a s r e l e a=20
s e d ; RET C-x o ESC > g i t SPC C-a C-k r p m SPC=20
=3D - q DEL DEL DEL - q i SPC s q s h RET c d SPC . C-a=20
C-k p e r l SPC - E SPC ' $ s t r SPC =3D SPC " a : b=20
" ; SPC p u s h SPC s p l i t ( " : " , SPC $ s t r=20
) , SPC 5 ; DEL ' RET ESC p ESC b ESC b ESC b DEL DEL=20
DEL DEL DEL C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f=20
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f SPC DEL =3D SPC DEL SPC DEL DEL=20
SPC =3D ( 5 C-d C-d C-f ) C-e RET g i t SPC p u l l RET=20
c d RET l s SPC f o o RET r m d i r SPC f o TAB TAB=20
TAB C-a C-k ESC x r e p o r t SPC - e m DEL DEL DEL=20
e m a c s SPC b u SPC RET

Recent messages:
Wrote /home/eda/git_working/repos/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
Mark set
Quit
Mark set [2 times]
No match
Quit [2 times]
Mark set
~=20
Making completion list...
Complete, but not unique

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Subject: bug#20937: Acknowledgement (24.4; shell-mode: tab completion adds
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Subject: bug#20937: 24.4; shell-mode: tab completion adds /. to directory, which is not helpful
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Ed Avis <eda@HIDDEN> writes:

> M-x shell
> mkdir foo
> rmdir foo <TAB> <TAB>
>
> The argument to rmdir is completed to 'foo/.' (which is the initial
> substring of 'foo/.' and 'foo/..').

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

That first TAB completes to "foo/", though, which is what you'd expect.
(At least in 25.1 and up; I don't have 24.4 here.)

> Please change the tab completion in shell mode so that directories are
> completed to the trailing slash, as foo/, but the special '.' and '..'
> subdirectories are not considered for further completion.

In bug#16577, we discussed the possibility of adding more variables to
allow excluding files more easily.  If we had that, then adding "." and
".." to that would probably be pretty popular.

(So I'm merging this report with that report, because fixing it would
also fix this one.)

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