From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: ignored files during TAB expansion Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:31:46 GMT Organization: Looking for work Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075430008 25742 80.91.224.253 (30 Jan 2004 02:33:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 03:33:20 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 1AmOTA-0007ZK-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:33:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmOSX-0005kS-9A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:32:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmOSR-0005bQ-FY for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:32:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmORl-0004y6-6I for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:32:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.60] (helo=mailbox8.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AmORk-0004xK-Kc for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mailbox8.ucsd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0U2Vll9022608 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:31:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ops.asp.att.net (sccrnsc03.ops.asp.att.net[135.173.106.207](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004013002314601600gn33qe>; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:31:46 +0000 Original-Received: by ops.asp.att.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id CAA14681; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:31:46 GMT Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.107.202 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: attbi_s03 1075429906 24.34.107.202 (Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:31:46 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:31:46 GMT X-Spamscanner: mailbox8.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Oct 30 2003 22:20:52, 0.0/5.0 2.60) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 89286 i0U2Vll9022608 mailbox8.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:6821 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6821 In article , Juri Linkov 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***