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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  Autocomplete in 'open file' works wrong with folders

Status in gedit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is related to what might also be a bug, where directories aren't
  displayed at the top when sorting files by name in the 'open file'
  dialogue. I think it used to work this way, but changed between Ubuntu
  12.04 and 14.10.

  So the fastest way to open files is often by typing. When an
  autocompleted folder name is displayed and is the only possible result
  for a path starting with those characters, pressing tab will cause the
  autocompleted text to be entered, while pressing enter normally causes
  the autocompleted folder to be navigated to.

  If there is a file that starts starts with that folder's name in the
  same directory, the bug described in this report doesn't occur.

  But if no such file exists, then if all files in the autocompleted
  folder start with the same letters, then pressing tab while the
  autocompleted folder's name is highlighted will cause those common
  letters to appear. Pressing enter instead of tab at the first step
  will instead cause a file to be opened with the name of those common
  letters.

  The case where I encounter this bug is manual files for ffmpeg, which
  all start with 'ff' (and Ubuntu doesn't package ffmpeg which is why
  I'm opening them with gedit).

  Autocompletion includes the '/' used to denote folders.

  So, for example, in the folder /tmp/h, you have these files:
  i
  il
  iif/
  iiif/

  In the 'open files' dialogue, if you type '/tmp/h', an autocompleted
  '/' appears. The expected behaviour is that if you press enter, you'll
  navigate to /tmp/h and view the files it contains. What actually
  happens is it opens '/tmp/h/i' for editing. Immediately after
  presseing enter while the autocompleted '/' is displayed, it turns a
  normal colour (instead of having autocompletion highlighting), an
  autocompleted 'i' appears, and the open file dialogue closes, having
  selected 'i' to open.

  If there is also a file '/tmp/hi', then the '/' is not autocompleted,
  and pressing enter will just open the folder and display the letter
  'i'. If, instead, there is a folder /tmp/h/uuu/ and a file
  /tmp/h/uuuuuuuu, and the folder uuu contains another folder u/ and a
  file uuuuuuuu, typing '/tmp/h/u' will cause an autocompleting 'uu' to
  be displayed (no '/' at the end), and pressing enter will just display
  the folder.

  If the file /tmp/h/uuuuuuuu is removed or renamed to be shorter than
  uuu/, then instead of 'uu', 'uu/' will be autocompleted, and pressing
  enter will cause the folder /tmp/h/uuu/u/ to be opened, which is
  empty.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 16 01:32:26 2015
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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