Re: Oddity with filename completion in the minibuffer

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1658.1075548591.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:

> ~/.sylpheed/
>    sylpheed.log
>    sylpheed.log.bak
> 
> You can see the precise keystrokes I used below, but basically, I typed
> 
> ~ / . s y l <tab> sylp <tab> . <tab>
> 
> and got ~/.sylpheed/sylpheed.log.bak, when I should have got
> ~/.sylpheed/sylpheed.log. If I type "~/.sylpheed/sylpheed.log" and press
> <tab> then I get the message [Complete but not unique] as expected. Emacs
> seems to work correctly on similar examples, just not this one.

See the variable completion-ignored-extensions.  ".log" is one of them.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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