bug#20165: closed (eshell completion bug in emacs 24.4.1 on windows)

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regarding eshell completion bug in emacs 24.4.1 on windows
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: eshell completion bug in emacs 24.4.1 on windows Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:34:28 +0000

There is a problem on path completion in emacs on windows. See following gif:

http://imgur.com/t7T0pBp

It moves the path one char to the left.

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> Re: bug#20165: eshell completion bug in emacs 24.4.1 on windows
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> Wed, 8 Mar 2023 18:28:13 -0800
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> On 3/22/2015 12:34 PM, Andreas Hiller wrote:
> > Mainly when i pasting paths from clipboard. Eshell can handle backslash.
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> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org <mailto:eliz@gnu.org>> schrieb am So., 22. 
> > März 2015 um 19:09 Uhr:
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> >      > From: Andreas Hiller <andreash8577@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:andreash8577@gmail.com>>
> >      > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:34:28 +0000
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> >      > There is a problem on path completion in emacs on windows. See
> >     following gif:
> >      > http://imgur.com/t7T0pBp <http://imgur.com/t7T0pBp>
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> >      > It moves the path one char to the left.
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> >     Why are you using backslashes in Eshell?
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> This issue is resolved as of Emacs 28.2 (or possibly earlier). On MS 
> Windows, if I type "cd C:\Windows" in Eshell and press TAB, it completes 
> to "cd c:/Windows/" with the space after "cd" preserved correctly, which 
> is what I'd expect.
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> Closing this issue now, though if there are still problems, just let me 
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> (Note that since "\" is the escape character in Eshell, you need to be 
> careful about using it as the directory separator in general, but I 
> don't think that's really a bug; just a thing for MS Windows users to be 
> aware of.)
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