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: completion-ignored-extensions: needed the vet to shoot emacs Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:44:17 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40A28CA1.9090202@yahoo.com> References: <87sme6cv20.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084396327 23417 80.91.224.253 (12 May 2004 21:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 12 23:12:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BO11G-0005td-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 23:12:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BO0j6-00015G-Tl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO0dc-000887-61 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BO0aM-00079O-Lh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BO0aM-000793-Cx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BO0aK-0001ty-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 22:44:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 170.207.51.80 ([170.207.51.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 22:44:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 170.207.51.80 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 22:44:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 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: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7913 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Gentlemen, I wanted to turn completion-ignored-extensions off, but > ;(setq completion-ignored-extensions nil); cause any dired to loop, emacs must be killed > ;(setq completion-ignored-extensions '()); same > ;(setq completion-ignored-extensions '("")); same, must use: > (setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".bogus_junk_or_else_emacs_loops")) > (and we had to call in the veterinarian to put emacs out of its misery). > emacs-version "21.3.1". Do say in the docstring the proper way of > turning it off. Are you sure? It works for me in Emacs 21.3. Did you start emacs with the -q --no-site-file options? What exactly did you type, after setting completion-ignored-extensions to nil? `C-x d RET', `C-x d ?', and `C-x d TAB TAB' all seem to work. -- Kevin Rodgers