Re: should locate-file-completion filter out "./" and "../"?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's true that the completion candidates themselves are just strings, but
> the completion alist passed to completing-read or read-file-name can have
> key-value pairs, and those values can be exploited. I track which candidate
> is chosen, so I can tell which of any duplicate candidate strings is picked.
> Then I can use the associated value.

So the duplicate removal can still be in display-completion-list because the
"duplicates" aren't quite duplicates.


        Stefan