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Re: Still bugs in read-file-name completion on w32
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Still bugs in read-file-name completion on w32 |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:20:51 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> It does not affect me on Windows. These are the files matcing "test" in c:\:
>>
>> test av mellanslag.txt test.doc.PPT
>> test.html test.html~
>> test.jpg test.txt
>> test.txt~ test.zip
>> test1.txt test2.txt
>> test_stor.mp3
>>
> I think you missed an important part of Lennart's mail. In his case only one
> file matched "test", and it did not match the regexp he used
> for completions.
> I think this is by design. Completion is there to help the user choose
> a file, not to prevent them from choosing the wrong file. By default we
> ignore backup files and known binary suffixes, but if the only match for
> what the user has typed is a file that we would normally ignore, then we
> happily complete to that, because ultimately the user knows best.
Are you sure?
I know this is the expected behavior of completion-ignored-extensions, but
I didn't know this is the expected behavior of the `predicate' argument to
read-file-name.
Stefan