bug#2445: 23.0.90; file name completion GCs a lot

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:41:47 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
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>     No: if all files in xmail/ start with "aba", then the above should
>     return "aba".

> I am not convinced it should do that.

If I type "C-x C-f foo/ TAB", I want it to complete to "foo/bar" if bar
is the only member of that directory (ignoring ., .., CVS/ and other
such things, of course).

What you're suggesting is a significant change to the semantics of
file-name-completion.


        Stefan