I am facing some strange behavior with file-name completion in emacs. C-x C-f to find file opens up the minibuffer with i:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. Hitting a TAB makes it i:/cygwini:/cygwin/home/rrajagop/StockScreener/working_copy/master_repo/stock_screener/. A couple of interesting things I've noticed:
- When the minibuffer opens up, i:/cygwin is greyed out and the path seems to start from /home. A C-a (go to begining of line) takes me to /home and not to i:/cygwin. So it looks like something in emacs is parsing the path to start from /home and not from i:/cygwin.
- I checked that TAB runs minibuffer-complete from minibuffer.el (by doing a describe-key for TAB), so it looks like minibuffer-complete is doing some translation for cygwin and appending the extra i:/cygwin.
How would I go about figuring this out/fixing it?
EDIT: Extra Information I tried opening up emacs with -Q and this problem doesn't happen. So this is something I'm loading in my .emacs. This is what I have in my .emacs
(require 'cl)
; Needed to see how fast Emacs loads. Loading time is printed at the
; and of the execution of .emacs file.
(defvar *emacs-load-start* (current-time))
; I really like this font. I also tried Monaco which you can
; see on lot of Railscasts but I couldn't find the one which
; supports Serbian Cyrillic and Latin letters.
(set-default-font "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-19-142-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")
;; Don't show that splash screen
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
; This should allegedly speed up Emacs starting by preventing
; some requests from the window manager back to the Emacs. Frankly
; speaking I didn't notice some speed up but I still keep it:(
(modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
;Allows syntax highlighting to work, among other things
(global-font-lock-mode 1)
; Sets initial window position
(set-frame-position (selected-frame) 0 0)
; Sets initial window size to 85 columns and 47 rows
(set-frame-size (selected-frame) 88 32)
; Makes last line ends in carriage return
(setq requre-final-newline t)
; Sets Ctrl-x / key combination for easy commenting
; out of selected lines.
(global-set-key "\C-x/" 'comment-or-uncomment-region)
; Allow resizing of the mini-buffer when necessary
(setq resize-minibuffer-mode t)
; Auto magically read compressed files
(auto-compression-mode 1)
; Set standard indent to 2 rather then 4
(setq standard-indent 2)
; This tells Emacs to create backup files.
(setq make-backup-files t)
; And this will enable versioning with default values.
(setq version-control t)
; Remove annoying message about deleting excess backup of .recentf
; which is list of recent files used
(setq delete-old-versions t)
; Finally do not spread backups all over the disk.
; Just save all backup files in this directory.
(setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs_backups/"))))
;; Directory to put various el files.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/includes")
(require 'ascii-table)
;; Loading collection of generic modes for different languages
(require 'generic-x)
;; Recent files
(require 'recentf)
(recentf-mode 1)
;; Loads ruby mode when a ruby file is opened.
(autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Major mode for editing ruby scripts." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(".rb$" . ruby-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(".rhtml$" . html-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(".html.erb$" . html-mode) auto-mode-alist))
;; Turn on ruby electric (auto completion of parenthesis, etc.)
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
(lambda()
(add-hook 'local-write-file-hooks
'(lambda()
(save-excursion
(untabify (point-min) (point-max))
(delete-trailing-whitespace) )))
(set (make-local-variable 'indent-tabs-mode) 'nil)
(set (make-local-variable 'tab-width) 2)
(imenu-add-to-menubar "IMENU")
(define-key ruby-mode-map "\C-m" 'newline-and-indent)
(require 'ruby-electric)
(ruby-electric-mode t) ))
;; Ruby debugging.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/plugins/rdebug")
(autoload 'rdebug "rdebug" "Ruby debugging support." t)
(global-set-key [f9] 'gud-step)
(global-set-key [f10] 'gud-next)
(global-set-key [f11] 'gud-cont)
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-d" 'rdebug)
;; set compile command based on current major mode
(autoload 'mode-compile "mode-compile"
"Command to compile current buffer file based on the major mode" t)
(global-set-key "\C-cc" 'mode-compile)
(autoload 'mode-compile-kill "mode-compile"
"Command to kill a compilation launched by `mode-compile'" t)
(global-set-key "\C-ck" 'mode-compile-kill)
;; yasnippet - adding code snippet insertion
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet")
(require 'yasnippet) ;; not yasnippet-bundle
(yas/initialize)
(yas/load-directory "~/.emacs.d/plugins/yasnippet/snippets")
;; Use CYGWIN bash
(require 'setup-cygwin)
;; Subversion integration via psvn - not gonna use svn anymore
;; (require 'psvn)
;; add some elisp tutorials to the info directory
(let ((info-root (concat usb-drive-letter "cygwin/usr/local/bin/emacs/info/")))
(setq Info-directory-list (list info-root
(concat info-root "elisp-tutorial-2.04/")
(concat info-root "emacs-lisp-intro-2.14")) )
)
;; Load time for .emacs - this should be the last line in .emacs for accurate load time
(message "ido and org-install took: %ds"
(destructuring-bind (hi lo ms) (current-time)
(- (+ hi lo) (+ (first *emacs-load-start*) (second *emacs-load-start*)) )))