ignored files during TAB expansion

ignored files during TAB expansion

[Dan Jacobson]

$ ls -d1 T*
Taiwan
The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy 3rd edition 4-02.pdf
$ emacs -q --no-site-file -nw
C-x C-f T TAB
We get Taiwan as only choice. The Art & Skill.... is ignored.
Probably the "&"

Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1573.1075407758.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> $ ls -d1 T*
> Taiwan
> The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy 3rd edition 4-02.pdf
> $ emacs -q --no-site-file -nw
> C-x C-f T TAB
> We get Taiwan as only choice. The Art & Skill.... is ignored.
> Probably the "&"
> 
> 

See the variable completion-ignored-extensions.  ".pdf" is in its 
default setting.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Juri Linkov]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> In article <mailman.1573.1075407758.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
>> $ ls -d1 T*
>> Taiwan
>> The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy 3rd edition 4-02.pdf
>> $ emacs -q --no-site-file -nw
>> C-x C-f T TAB
>> We get Taiwan as only choice. The Art & Skill.... is ignored.
>> Probably the "&"
>
> See the variable completion-ignored-extensions.  ".pdf" is in its 
> default setting.

That is why I have in .emacs:

(delete-from-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".pdf")
(delete-from-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".dvi")
(delete-from-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".log")

OK, .log was recently removed from completion-ignored-extensions in
Emacs CVS.  Perhaps, .pdf and .dvi should be removed too, because
these extensions are quite interesting for users.  But more
importantly that they would be removed from dired-omit-extensions
which is constructed from the completion-ignored-extensions list.

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Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1585.1075420294.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

> OK, .log was recently removed from completion-ignored-extensions in
> Emacs CVS.  Perhaps, .pdf and .dvi should be removed too, because
> these extensions are quite interesting for users.

I think maybe a better solution is for completion in shell commands 
*not* to use this list.  It was designed to filter out files that you 
wouldn't want to read with find-file.  But when you're specifying 
filename arguments to shell commands, the set of useful files is 
dependent on the command you're applying to them.  If it's a basic 
command like mv or rm, there's no reason to filter out anything.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Dan Jacobson]

B> See the variable completion-ignored-extensions.

Oh. BTW, (setq completion-ignored-extensions nil) caused any dired to
loop eating 100% CPU until killall emacs. But only when appended to my
http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt, not in the general case.

$ strace emacs . gives lots of:
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
gettimeofday({1075491878, 323218}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1075491878, 323315}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 5522}}, NULL) = 0
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])

I'll try the other example. Oops,
Symbol's function definition is void: delete-from-list

Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Dan Jacobson]

Dan>     I'll try the other example. Oops,
Dan>     Symbol's function definition is void: delete-from-list

RMS> delete-from-list is not a standard Emacs function.

Yes, I was scolding the poster for posting non standard solutions. I
guess I should have been more explicit.

RMS> Is this really a bug in Emacs?