Re: completion-ignored-extensions: match full file names

[Stefan Monnier]

> Each element of completion-ignored-extensions is matched at the _end_
> of the file/directory name of the completion candidates.  So I think
> currently what you want is not possible.

> Using regexp syntax is not a good idea, IMO, since that would require
> to rewrite all the customizations users out there have, to escape the
> dot.  But I think we could make a change whereby if an element of
> completion-ignored-extensions begins with a slash, that means match at
> the beginning.  Then we could have "/.git/" as an element, and that
> would ignore only the standard ".git" subdirectories, not any
> directory that happens to end in ".git".

> WDYT?

I'd much rather add regexp-support, which will give a lot more
flexibility and should be pretty easy to implement.  Of course, it will
have to use a new variable since as you point out the current 
completion-ignored-extensions aren't compatible with
a regexp interpretation.


        Stefan