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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Completion and environment variables don't cooperate
Message-ID: <1989Sep21.191411.3071@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 19:14:11 GMT
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: U of Rochester, Dept. of Computer Science, Rochester, NY 14627
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This affects 18.54 and 18.55 at least, but I am sure it was there
long before them.

Suspect is minibuffer-complete-word.  When asked to complete a
filename that contains environment variables, it reduces the entire
filename to "/".

TO REPEAT:

I assume you have a $HOME/.emacs.  Activate the minibuffer of a
freshly started `emacs -q' by doing

C-xC-fC-aC-k

Your minibuffer shows "Find file:[] ".  Now type

$HOME/.emacs

Now, if you type TAB, the completion will succeed in giving you the
filename you expected.  However, if you type SPC, the filename will
be replaced by a /.

WORKAROUND:

Until fixed, use TAB for completions in the minibuffer, never SPC.


-- 
                                      Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez
                                      Department of Computer Science
                                      University of Rochester
                                      Rochester,  NY 14627