Re: CVS directories in completion-ignored-extensions

[Kim F. Storm]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:34:07 -0500
> > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> > 
> > So sure, without a better mechanism, there will be some annoying 
> > side-effects
> > in completion, but let's program for the common case, and _keep_ CVS in
> > completion-ignored-extensions.
> 
> How about if we change "CVS/" to "/CVS/" and modify the code to match
> the whole name if the member of the list begins with a slash?

That's a good idea!

> 
> The only problem with that approach, AFAICT, is when a user wants to
> ignore files under the root directory.  If that sounds like a serious
> problem, we could have something like "//foo/" to DTRT in such cases.

IIUC, the completion-ignored-extensions doesn't have any notion of
things being relative to a certain directory, so why is the root
directory a problem?

> 
> What do you-all think?

I like it, but I think /CVS/ is sufficient.

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