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bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?
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Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug? |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:35:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:37:16 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
>> Thanks, and sorry for forgetting about that. (But in rereading the doc
>> string now, it seems either ambiguously worded or even wrong:
>
>> "Completion ignores file names ending in any string in this list.
>> It does not ignore them if all possible completions end in one of
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> these strings or when displaying a list of completions.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> It ignores directory names if they match any string in this list which
>> ends in a slash."
>
>> This seems to be saying that the *Completions* buffer should display the
>> file names libthread_db-1.0.so and libthread_db.so in the above
>> scenarios, but that is not what happens. Or am I misconstruing the doc
>> string? If so, perhaps it can be rephrased more clearly.
>
> In your examples, you hit "/usr/lib/libthr TAB" which does not display
> the completions for "libthr" but instead performs the completion.
> You only get a *Completions* buffer on the second TAB, at which point
> the minibuffer input is "/usr/lib/libthreadweaver.so.4" for which
> there's no *.so file to display any more.
> If instead of the first TAB you press ? then you'll see the .so
> file listed.
>
>
> Stefan
Thanks (again) for setting me straight.
Steve Berman
- bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?,
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