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From: premise!hugh%nc.MIT.EDU@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Hugh Secker-Walker)
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Subject: a bug in the function file-name-completion
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Date: 28 Aug 89 15:33:43 GMT
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                                            M.I.T.   Rm. 20C-014
                                            Cambridge,  MA   02139
                                            August 25, 1989

Emacs was started using
% emacs -q

The following is the annotated (GNU Emacs Lisp Manual style) activity
in buffer *scratch*

(emacs-version)
==> "GNU Emacs 18.53.3 of Thu Mar  2 1989 on earfull (berkeley-unix)"
;; We get the same bug on another machine running 18.52.

(setq dir "/tmp")
==> "/tmp"

(list-directory dir)
==> nil
---------- Buffer: *Directory* ----------
Directory /tmp/
1989Aug23inctar
1989Aug24inctar
SUPDUP009745
lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.lin
lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.log
tlog
---------- Buffer: *Directory* ----------

(file-name-completion "lg" dir)
"lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.lin"

The completion should have been
"lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.l"


When our choasnet connection is working I can also be reached at
hugh%nc@mc.lcs.mit.edu

Thanks very much.


Hugh Secker-Walker