Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> partial-completion-mode seems to cause a problem when one tries to
> delete a symlink to a non-existent file.
>
> Try this:
>
> ln -s BLAHBLAHBLAH /tmp/DELETEME
> (this assumes that neither BLAHBLAHBLAH nor /tmp/DELETEME exist before
> running ln).
>
> emacs -q
> M-x partial-completion-mode RET
> M-x delete-file RET /tmp/DELETEME RET
>
> instead of deleting /tmp/DELETEME the minibuffer shows:
> Delete file: /tmp/DELETEME [Confirm]
> Pressing RET does not do anything...
>
> If the symlink target for /tmp/DELETEME exists, then /tmp/DELETEME is
> deleted just fine...
A bit of debugging shows that the partial completion code calls:
(test-completion "/tmp/DELETEME" 'read-file-name-internal "/tmp")
which returns nil because it calls
(read-file-name-internal "/tmp/DELETEME" "/tmp" 'lambda)
which returns nil because it calls
Ffile_exists_p ("/tmp/DELETEME")
which returns nil because it calls stat ("/tmp/DELETEME")
If "stat" was to be changed to "lstat" then the original problem would
be fixed.
But is that change desirable?
What should (file-exists-p "/tmp/DELETEME") return when /tmp/DELETEME
is a symlink that points to a non-existent file?
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