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completions in M-x find-library include .elc files |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:28:57 -0400 |
Typing TAB or ? in M-x find-library shows .el and .elc files when it
probably should just be the name of the library without the extension.
Appears that this is a general problem with
locate-file-completion-table in files.el. It appears to put all files
in to the completion table without condition. The fix is just
removing the first `push' operation.
=== modified file 'lisp/files.el'
--- lisp/files.el 2010-03-31 01:51:54 +0000
+++ lisp/files.el 2010-04-16 01:57:24 +0000
@@ -760,7 +760,6 @@
(when (file-directory-p dir)
(dolist (file (file-name-all-completions
string-file dir))
- (push file names)
(when (string-match suffix file)
(setq file (substring file 0 (match-beginning 0)))
(push file names)))))
Hope this can get fixed. I'd love to have the size of my
*completions* buffers reduced by a factor of 3!
Thanks for Emacs,
/a
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Re: bug#5955: completions in M-x find-library include .elc files |
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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:24:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> BTW, please try the patch below, to see if you like the
>> resulting behavior.
> Interesting idea. Show matches for more than one library without
> suffixes, but if there is only one match show the possible extensions.
> I'd say this is an improvement for users over the current behavior.
I've installed this change (well, a slightly different version).
> However, some libraries names are a prefix for another. So really,
Yes, it's not perfect, but I think it's good enough. I don't think it's
a clean enough behavior to warrant documenting.
Stefan
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