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From: dove@mit-bug.UUCP (Web Dove)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: minibuffer overwrite bug in gnu 16.60
Message-ID: <402@mit-bug.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 12:39:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-bug.402
Posted: Fri Oct 25 12:39:14 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 08:07:02 EDT
Reply-To: dove@mit-bugs-bunny.UUCP (Web Dove)
Organization: MIT Digital Signal Processing Group
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The bug is this:

invoke emacs on a file under a long path like
"/usr/src/local/gnuemacs/src/something.c"

invoke m-x rename-file

when it prompts for the file hit return.  (this fills the minibuffer
out to about 80 chars with
"Rename /usr/src/local/gnuemacs/src/something.c to: /usr/src/local/gnuemacs/sr"

unfortunately, when it wraps it doesn't print any chars, so you can't
see what you are typing.  The problem is you can't make use of the
spiffy completion features anymore.  Nor can you see if you made a
mistake.

This is the most bothersome bug to me in 16.60.  Perhaps because I use
rename-file a lot.