Re: Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:07:37 +0800
>> From: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>
>>
>> In (info "(elisp) File Name Completion"):
>>  -- Function: file-name-completion filename directory &optional
>>           predicate
>> [...]
>>      If PREDICATE is non-`nil' then it ignores possible completions that
>>      don't satisfy PREDICATE, after calling that function with one
>>      argument, the expanded absolute file name.
>>
>> And in the doc string of this function:
>>     If PREDICATE is non-nil, call PREDICATE with each possible
>>     completion (in absolute form) and ignore it if PREDICATE returns
>>     nil.
>>
>> It seems to me that the arguments of PREDICATE described by these two
>> paragraphs don't agree with each other: the first one is "the expanded
>> absolute file name", but the second one is "each possible completion".
>> IMHO the latter is more appropriate.  Or maybe I got something wrong.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Why do you think that "expanded absolute file name" of a "possible
> completion" and "each possible completion (in absolute form)" are
> anything but the same thing?  Where exactly do you see the difference
> between these two?

Well, I misunderstood it.  I thought the "expanded absolute file name"
is for FILENAME, so the first version has only one argument: FILENAME
(in absolute form).

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