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eshell case-insensitive completion

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From: Dario Klingenberg <dario.klingenberg <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: eshell case-insensitive completion
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 18:16:56 +0200

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Dear all,


I am experiencing a strange behaviour of eshell on emacs 26.2:


Steps to reproduce:

emacs -Q
M-x eshell
(setq pcomplete-ignore-case t)


Description:

Under some circumstances, completion of paths starting with "~" leads to 
"~" being expanded to the full path and overwriting the previous text.

Example: suppose I wanted to copy the directory 
~/Documents/some_directory/ to my ~/Downloads/ folder. I type

cp -r ~/doc<TAB>

and it correctly expands to

cp -r ~/Documents/

However, when I continue with

cp -r ~/Documents/my_directory ~/dow<TAB>

it expands to

cp -r ~/Docume/home/username/Downloads/


It seems related to this bug: 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2012-11/msg00878.html


In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.7)
 of 2019-04-17 built on localhost
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description:    Manjaro Linux

Configured using:
 'configure
 CONFIG_SHELL=/gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash
 SHELL=/gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash
 --prefix=/gnu/store/b38pn0gnj4jsrf79lg4kr80rn5kaim0q-emacs-26.2
 --enable-fast-install --with-modules'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS

Memory information:
((conses 16 820281 36352)
 (symbols 48 72804 17)
 (miscs 40 147 163)
 (strings 32 218249 11988)
 (string-bytes 1 6827776)
 (vectors 16 118557)
 (vector-slots 8 1948506 26962)
 (floats 8 610 381)
 (intervals 56 640 0)
 (buffers 992 13))


Best regards,

Dario

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Message #8 received at 35732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Dario Klingenberg <dario.klingenberg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35732: eshell case-insensitive completion
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:59:22 -0500

On Tue 14 May 2019 at 18:16, Dario Klingenberg <dario.klingenberg <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x eshell
> (setq pcomplete-ignore-case t)

I can't reproduce this, which isn't surprising since eshell moved away
from pcomplete. If no one else can reproduce, can we close this bug?

Thanks,
Alex

Message #11 received at 35732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dario Klingenberg <dario.klingenberg <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#35732: eshell case-insensitive completion
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:31:06 -0400

found 35732 26.2
tags 35732 fixed
close 35732 27.1
quit

Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue 14 May 2019 at 18:16, Dario Klingenberg <dario.klingenberg <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> emacs -Q
>> M-x eshell
>> (setq pcomplete-ignore-case t)
>
> I can't reproduce this, which isn't surprising since eshell moved away
> from pcomplete. If no one else can reproduce, can we close this bug?

I can reproduce on emacs-26, but not on master, so I think it's safe to
call it fixed.

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