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bug#39541: M-x compile *Completions* should notice "<"
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#39541: M-x compile *Completions* should notice "<" |
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Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:47:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> $ emacs -q Makefile
> M-x compile
> Compile command: make -k sstt < [TAB]
>
> at this point *Completions* just still shows targets from the Makefile
> (like "sstt")
>
> It should notice the "<" (like bash-completion correctly does), and start
> instead expanding filenames.
>
> OK, we now help it by entering the first letter of a file there, and hit
> TAB. And indeed it does expand the filename correctly.
I can confirm that this bug is still present in Emacs 28.
I tried looking at what's causing it to switch from Makefile target
completion to filename completion when you enter a character first, but
was unable to -- the completion code here is kinda convoluted.
Anybody got any idea what's going on here?
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