bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> My default directory is ~/ and I tyoe C-x C-f /med TAB.
>
> It used to give me ~//media/.  Another TAB would give me
> ~//media/rms/.

But why do you type "/med TAB" instead of "med TAB"?

And I'm unable to reproduce the behaviour you're describing in older
Emacs versions -- I tried this in Emacs 25.1, and `C-x C-f /med TAB'
just gives me "No match", even if ~/media exists.

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