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bug#28615: [PATCH] Clarify what grep-read-files wants
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28615: [PATCH] Clarify what grep-read-files wants |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:55:26 +0300 |
> From: Allen Li <vianchielfaura@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:43:59 -0700
> Cc: 28615-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Why did you not change the collection function?
Because there could be a file called literally like one of the
shorthands in grep-files-aliases, or whose name includes those
shorthands as a substring.
> As I noted in the bug, most of the completions that would be
> provided by read-file-name-internal don't work
IMO, that's okay, because wildcards cannot be meaningfully completed
on.