Variable: icomplete-tidy-shadowed-file-names
icomplete-tidy-shadowed-file-names is a variable defined in
icomplete.el.gz.
Value
nil
Documentation
If non-nil, automatically delete superfluous parts of file names.
For example, if the user types ~/ after a long path name, everything preceding the ~/ is discarded so the interactive selection process starts again from the user's $HOME.
Source Code
;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/icomplete.el.gz
(defvar icomplete-tidy-shadowed-file-names nil
"If non-nil, automatically delete superfluous parts of file names.
For example, if the user types ~/ after a long path name,
everything preceding the ~/ is discarded so the interactive
selection process starts again from the user's $HOME.")