From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: symbolic links don't show up special in the *Completions* buffer Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:59:12 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E2DA690.8000102@ihs.com> References: <87iswkree6.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043181097 22664 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 20:31:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b52Y-0005ow-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:30:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18b4ro-0005wF-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:19:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18b4kR-00037k-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18b4iF-0002ku-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:09:37 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18b4YH-0007qf-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b4Wm-0003Hr-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:57:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b4Wg-0003H2-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:57:38 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4277 Dan Jacobson wrote: > That symbolic links don't show up special in the *Completions* buffer > is a shame > $ mkdir real; ln -s . oo > $ emacs > C-x d TAB TAB > oo/ real/ Do you want something like `ls -F` would display (oo/@)? I think that would be difficult to implement, since the completion text would not be a valid file name. But there is an alternative; see From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Coloring directories on completion? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:15:06 -0600 Message-ID: <3B2518BA.F9AA5F09@ihs.com> -- Kevin Rodgers