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23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug? |
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:42:02 +0100 |
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In response to my bug report #1283:
> > On my system, /lib contains these two files:
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> > libthread_db-1.0.so
> > libthread_db.so.1
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> > When I type `C-x d' or `C-x C-f' and then `/lib/libthr TAB', the path is
> > completed to `/lib/libthread_db.so.1'.
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> > Also on my system, /usr/lib contains these three files:
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> > libthread_db.so
> > libthreadweaver.so.4
> > libthreadweaver.so.4.1.0
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> > When I type `C-x d' or `C-x C-f' and then `/usr/lib/libthr TAB', the
> > path is completed to `/usr/lib/libthreadweaver.so.4'. A second TAB
> > tells me this is complete but not unique and the *Completions* buffer
> > shows me (only) libthreadweaver.so.4 and libthreadweaver.so.4.1.0.
>
> > This is with -Q, and I get the same behavior with completion-styles set
> > to any of `basic', `emacs21', emacs22', or `partial-completion'.
Stefan wrote:
> This is the effect of having ".so" in the completion-ignored-extensions
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.
Steve Berman
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
of 2008-10-25 on escher
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Re: bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug? |
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Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:35:52 +0100 |
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs as well.
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
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