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Re: tab completion ignores baz.log file contrary to documentation


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: tab completion ignores baz.log file contrary to documentation
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 11:12:56 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joe Bayes wrote:

> Summary: emacs' "minibuffer-complete" function ignores the file
> "baz.log". "C-h f" doesn't say anything about it ignoring certain
> files. Either the command should not ignore that file, or the
> documentation should be changed to reflect the current behavior.

minibuffer-complete can be used to complete lots of things.  When it
completes filenames, the behavior is somewhat special.

See the variable completion-ignored-extensions.

Maybe the documentation for find-file should have a pointer to
completion-ignored-extensions.

kai
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