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From: richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Richard G. Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: uemacs 3.10 filename completion
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Date: 3 Aug 89 21:19:33 GMT
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Reply-To: richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Richard G. Knowles)
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In article <1207@syma.sussex.ac.uk> pogo!orca!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!syma!leilabd leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) writes:
>I have noticed that filename completion in uemacs 3.10 doesn't work
>beyond 32 characters, including the path. This occurs in the
>distributed ibm pc version and the version I have compiled on our
>Sequent Symmetry BSD-like machine. Has anyone else noticed this? Does
>anyone have a fix?

In input.c, routine comp_file, replace the reference to NBUFN with NSTRING
(the buffer is statically declared with size NSTRING).  This will give you
up to 128 characters.

Note: after around 70 characters you will run off the command line and not
see what is completed anyway.

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Richard G. Knowles                        richk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM
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